Last night, watched SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (1959), starring Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, which Gore Vidal expanded off the one-act play by Tennessee Williams. First time for me, recorded off TCM. Oh, boy. With dialogue and performances occupying the precise intersection between poetry and overbearing pretension, the story’s about a wealthy southern matriarch […]
Originally published on Facebook 3 May 2014. Recently spoken to me, a canard I’ve heard before: “Jack Nicholson always plays the same character.” This sounds good, but is only believed by people who have seen only a small number of his films. The persona usually attributed to him, “Jack Nicholson,” the eyebrow-raising hell raiser who […]
* We* are the music makers… and *we* are the dreamers of dreams. First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971). Directed by Mel Stuart. Screenplay by Roald Dahl (and an uncredited David Seltzer), from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, […]