Collins, Jimmy Carl Black, Pamela "Suzy Creamcheese" Zarubica, Frank Zappa, and Don Preston, London, circa 1968. Collins was the primary voice of The Mothers Of Invention in their first incarnation,…
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In Dog Day Afternoon, Sidney Lumet, 1975. Not to be glib, but it's been a lousy day for great character actors who worked with Lumet (the previously discussed Jack Klugman,…
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With Jack Lemmon in The Days of Wine And Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962. Sober cinephiles the world over will tell you that Klugman's character Jim is pretty much the platonic…
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John Carter 5) The Kid With a Bike, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, reviewed here. 4) Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, reviewed here. 3) Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, reviewed here. Some words…
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David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson on the set of Cosmopolis. The other day I was allowed a few minutes on the phone with David Cronenberg, whose masterful adaptation of Don…
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The Guilt Trip, On The Road, and This Is 40, reviewed for MSN Movies. There's supposed to be a Promised Land review in there too but at the moment the…
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