Daily Briefing. Spielberg, Solomon, Mitchum, Lucas
David HudsonThe new Film Quarterly and a round of papers from Boston.
The new Film Quarterly and a round of papers from Boston.
Also: David Fincher’s original series for Netflix and an action comedy starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin.
Also: The latest indefinite word on whether or not David Fincher will make The Girl Who Played with Fire.
“The pace of their rush toward destruction never lets up, pile upon pile of medium shots, thousands of fast cuts…”
Stieg Larsson’s wish-fulfillment-fantasy-disguised-as-a-thriller as process and data.
Gary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.
Also: David Fincher on the embargo brouhaha. Charges against Lars von Trier dropped. And more news and goings on.
Also: Myrna Loy, Mohammad Rasoulof, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Neil Jordan, viewing and browsing and reading and more.
Also: Cut-Ups in San Francisco, John Samson in New York, projects in the works and more.
On the Internet, your trailers can run 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
How odd it is to go to the trouble of polling over 100 critics and tabulating the results only to announce your big year-end lists on a Friday evening when just about everyone but a pathetically
And on it rolls. David Fincher's The Social Network has taken the top awards from the New York Film Critics Circle: Best Film and Director. Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right has won three, though