I saw Murphy's War at Radio City. While I enjoyed it if the Music Hall hadn't been so starved for product they would definitely have not chosen it. It was very far from the type of movie they would have preferred to play especially as a summer film. It was the only time I heard f-ck in a movie...
I remember somebody who I worked with saying when Ann Southern was nominated for Whales that if you saw Southern's name on a list of nominees you just vote for her no matter if you've seen the film or not.
Come September.
Starring the 3 of the most beautiful things in the world; Rock, Gina and the Italian Riviera. In wide screen. You haven't lived until you race around Italy on a vespa. I think they still don't wear helmets. I didn't but who cared?
Strangely for this wonderful sundae of a film...
Wow am I jealous. As I've written I watched the Criterion premiere on TV far away in the Jersey suburbs and there was no way my parents were going to bring me into the city to see it let alone pay roadshow prices when I could pay 75 cents for a saturday matinee by the time it made its way out...
My mother took my sister and I to see Any Wednesday at radio city. Penelope was the film that followed it and I believe broke box office records. Not only does Natalie Wood look beautiful in it but I think it's the last movie where New York looks like an ultra-sophisticated glamorous place. This...
Some of these Warners are big surprises. Things like The Glass Bottom Boat and Penelope which didn't even make it to DVD. I don't even know if it made it to VHS. Anyway outside of me who wants these films? I imagine I'm the only person in the world who wants a bluray of Half a Sixpence(Yes I...