There’s the same issue with a small fraction of the audience for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. They were the ones celebrating the blackface episodes for all the wrong reasons and they turned angry when the show started to make a few points clear (including “The Gang Turns Black” episode).
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Leeds 1971 was the bonus set on the “Super Deluxe” (well, pricy) Stinky Fingers reissue. It’s also available for streaming on YouTube. It had been bootlegged for decades (it may have been broadcast on the radio), usually as “Get Your Leeds Lungs Out”, but this version is the complete concert, and freshly mixed. These…
Definitely not Apple. They’re happier with a smaller lineup and base of customers for streaming as well as for buying devices. Their reference is HBO, rather than HBO Max.
They have Dark, which was a big hit outside of Germany. They have also bought for the US and a few other countries Babylon Berlin (which they haven’t developed).
It’s indeed puzzling to realize how much his potential was wasted for decades, not just because of drugs, but because he was just happy to play the guitar parts that Richards wasn’t bothered to handle on his own.
To my surprise, he’s also quite wrong about the details of Exile in Main St., while it’s supposed to be the final and best entry on the list, which would justify more work into it. He indulges into the myth that the album was conceived in a villa on the French. It was the case for half the backing tracks on that…
Orson Welles was his own worst enemy, and no Spielberg contribution would have changed that. Citizen Kane had been his albatross in some way. He was obsessed by the way he would be remembered first for Kane, and every new work of his would be compared, unfavorably, to Kane. I don’t think that was deliberate of his,…
Seriously????
He probably cut his nails and kept them in the palm of one of his hands, then decided it would be funnier not to drop them on the ground but into some random unoccupied car that was either a cabriolet or had its windows rolled down.
What’s highly revealing is that Fukunaga acted that way with Nick Cuse, as if he were a nobody from whom he could easily steal a writing credit, while the guy has Damon Lindelof or JJ Abrams on speed dial. If he behaved in such a petty way with someone who’s actually quite connected, imagine how he must be with actual …
Remember when Nic Pizzolatto was lambasted for writing a character on the second season of True Detective who was a douchebag Asian director with his hair in a bun? It was regarded as a cheap shot against Fukunaga. Now, it looks prescient...
It was fine, but didn’t have anything really compelling, like characters or a story. It was basically a sitcom with a ton of references to Marvel properties, including some obscure ones. I enjoy Patton Oswalt a lot, but references and cameos (including Sam Richardson) weren’t enough to build something. Even when it…
The short film by Fellini based on Poe is part of the Spirits of the Dead anthology and is called Tobby Dammit. The other two segments are a disaster (the Roger Vadim/Jane & Peter Fonda one) or formulaic (The Louis Malle/Alain Delon/Brigitte Bardot one), but Toby Dammit is one of the best things Fellini put on film.…
Yet, Campbell isn’t flawless. He’s being diplomatic in the interview, but he hates Timothy Dalton as Bond. It’s only when Dalton was fired from the part due to a request from MGM/UA (the Broccoli family allowed Dalton to announce that he was leaving the part on his own) that he accepted to direct Goldeneye.
They DID offer him Quantum of Solace. But one thing that wasn’t mentioned in the interview is that Martin Campbell acknowledges directing a Bond film is extremely exhausting and that he’s mostly interested in popping the cherry for a new Bond actor.
A lot of what made YHF great was caused by the late Jay Bennett, but mostly in some accidental way.
Farhadi is in very hot waters with the Iranian regime, which prevented him a couple of times in the past from going to the Oscars. And just four months ago, he posted an open letter about the regime on his Instagram that was a scathing attack.
If the AV Club from a few years ago wasn’t doing weekly reviews of it, it would have been a tragedy.
Same thought. Apatow tends to be a calamitous judge of pace and rhythm, which was egregious on both Funny People and This Is 40, where he was so enamored by some improv or side plots he basically sunk the film with its own weight. And these were productions where he had to comply with requests by the studio for a…
There is a little known modern western from 1998 called The Hi-Lo Country, starring Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson and Patricia Arquette. It carries some obvious gay subtext between the two leads, it’s directed by Stephen Frears, a Brit, and in one major supporting part, you have... Sam Elliott.