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Saved Peter Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Work featured in NY Times, Sight & Sound, New Yorker, LA Times TrembleSighWonder.com my site. Edited & wrote foreword to De Palma script. PB book coming, plus Jim McBride, Larry Cohen, Lizzie Borden books
it's OK, I don't link just to things I think are awesome, I link to things that are interesting b/c of cast/director/era, figure some Hackman/Schatzberg fans out there would want to see this even if it doesn't quite work.
Obscure YT of the day: Forgotten Gene Hackman film MISUNDERSTOOD (1983), w/ Henry Thomas (E.T.), Rip Torn & Susan Anspach. Directed by Jerry Schatzberg (PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, SCARECROW).
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My lyrical prose is becoming legendary!
Have no clue, sorry
It's a curse as well as a blessing!
Obscure Jennifer Runyon (R.I.P.) of the night: Jennifer stars with Donovan Leitch, Joe Pantoliano & Peter Boyle in THE IN CROWD, similar in subject matter to Waters' HAIRSPRAY! Directed by veteran writer Mark Rosenthal.
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R.I.P Jennifer Runyon of Ghostbusters, Charles in Charge, Up the Creek, and To All a Goodnight. ☹️
you didn't work very long on that one, did you
Some more new reading.
A little new subway reading
Avoided DRIVEN for 20 yrs but when I saw it last night, I didn't hate it! Ridiculous w/bad CGI, but Renny Harlin's overwrought goofy direction is more my speed than Tony Scott's pretense, & Stallone's amiable narcissism more likeable than Cruise's pouty intensity in Days of Thunder!
Doing final edits on JIM McBRIDE'S LOST SCREENPLAYS OF THE 1970s, featuring a career-spanning interview alongside unproduced screenplays the acid-western GONE BEAVER & his sexually frank relationship comedy-drama MY GIRLFRIEND'S GIRLFRIEND.
70s cinema lives again!
Script archeology continues!
Coming this month: Jim McBride's "Lost Screenplays of the 70s"! the visionary "Acid Western" GONE BEAVER and the raw, funny, sexually frank open relationship comedy MY GIRLFRIEND'S GIRLFRIEND, featuring a career-spanning McBride interview by me.
Obscure YT of the day:
Rejoice! After abandoning Bud Spencer for the 2nd season of Dt. Extralarge, MIAMI VICE star Philip Michael Thomas reunited w/ Bud in 1997's WE ARE ANGELS series, a riff on WE'RE NO ANGELS, this time directed by Ruggero Deodato(!!!)
youtu.be/jwLqEyQyZNk?...
Script archeology continues!
Coming this month: Jim McBride's "Lost Screenplays of the 70s"! the visionary "Acid Western" GONE BEAVER and the raw, funny, sexually frank open relationship comedy MY GIRLFRIEND'S GIRLFRIEND, featuring a career-spanning McBride interview by me.
Obscure YT of the day: following up on yesterday Phillip Michael Thomas didn't return for the 2nd season of DETECTIVE EXTRALARGE, so Bud "Trinity" Spencer teamed up with Michael Winslow (POLICE ACADEMY sound FX guy!) Hilarity ensues!
youtu.be/fIy5jhpVw2M?...
Obscure YT of the day: You're gonna love DETECTIVE EXTRALARGE (1991), where Bud Spencer (TRINITY films) teams with Phillip Michael Thomas (MIAMI VICE!) to solve crimes! The pilot episode costars Lela Rochon & is directed by Enzo Castellari (INGLORIOUS BASTARDS)!
youtu.be/F3yRtJ2cJ9M?...
Obscure YT of the day: 1987 Canadian mafia-themed comedy MR. NICE GUY (not the Jackie Chan), most notable as it offers a romantic lead role to everyone's favorite, Jan Smithers (Baily Quarters on WKRP!). W/the late comic Mike MacDonald, Joe Silver & Harvey Atkin.
youtu.be/RaACA-rugNk?...
Obscure British-Canadian YT of the day: Peter Collinson (ITALIAN JOB) directs TOMORROW NEVER COMES, w/ Oliver Reed, Susan George, Donald Pleasance, Raymond Burr, Paul Koslo, Stephen McHattie & playwright John Osborne!
youtu.be/1gjCpUAL_zI?...
Obscure YT of the day: A gunman (Robert Culp!) goes South of the Border to avenge a friend's murder in 1964s THE HANGED MAN, directed by Don Siegel (DIRTY HARRY).
Edmond O'Brien, Vera Miles, Norman Fell & Seymour Cassel costar!
youtu.be/SANVqzVeL-g?...
Better a variation on a 77 year old British film than Scream 7, is all I can say.
HOW TO MAKE A KILLING: Good cast, points for trying something a bit different, definitely uneven (my wife & daughter liked it more, so mileage may vary).
Those wanting to see a "real" non-sequel movie and happy if it's an interesting 2 1/2 star experience (as I was), go see it.
Obscure YT of the day: Everyone's favorite actor Warren Oates stars in 1972's neo-noir CHANDLER as a private eye! Leslie Caron & Scatman Crothers costar.
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I did get the year wrong, it was 1980, not 81
Down Twisted, baby!
U.A. offering up some good choices one weekend in 1981.
In just two days...you can watch your favorite movies...on records!
in that he had NO success outside of it (as director), probably. Even 70s guys like Rafelson and Bogdanovich had commercially viable stuff like MASK or BLACK WIDOW
Obscure YT of the day: Hal Ashby (LAST DETAIL, SHAMPOO, BEING THERE, HAROLD & MAUDE) had a big flop w/ SECOND-HAND HEARTS (1981) w/ Robert Blake (BARETTA) & Barbara Harris (FAMILY PLOT). Decide for yourself! Haskell Wexler shot it!
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Obscure YT of the day: George C. Scott (Patton!) & William Peterson (To Live & Die in LA!) star in 1993's CURACAO (aka CIA: EXILED) w/ Julie Carmen, Trish Van Devere, Alexei Sayle & Phillip Anglim. From the director of THE SEVENTH SIGN!
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