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Alain Delon: Eyes So Deep There’s No Bottom
For the great Alain Delon’s birthday Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Le Cercle Rouge” FIRST UP: the lengthy (understatement) piece I wrote for Oscilloscope’s “Musings” blog, a piece years in the making (old-timers will remember the birth of the idea … Continue reading
R.I.P. Jean-Paul Belmondo
The outpouring of love for Belmondo has been very heartening to see and I was particularly touched by Mickey Rourke’s Instagram post about him. Mickey Rourke is in a direct line from Belmondo. It’s like a baseball play: Brando/Dean to … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies, RIP
Tagged Alain Delon, France, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mickey Rourke, mirrors
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April 2019 Viewing Diary
I have had an extremely challenging month. Things got slightly spooky. This looks INSANE when written out like this. And believe it or not, I was super busy this month. I wrote like 5 gigantic pieces, and somehow managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Alain Delon, Bob Fosse, Charlotte Rampling, documentary, Emily Dickinson, England, Fritz Lang, Germany, Jodie Foster, Joe Berlinger, Laura Dern, Martin Scorsese, Patricia Highsmith, Paul Schrader, Richard Gere, Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell, Supernatural, Willie Nelson, women directors, Zac Efron
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Kristen Stewart. Androgyne. Beautiful Boy. Gamine. Epicene. Tomboy. Either/Or. Neither/Nor. Both.
Camille Paglia is not the only one to observe that the great movie stars – of any era – are those with androgynous characteristics. The same could be said for literary characters (people always seem to forget the cross-dressing incident … Continue reading
Posted in Actors
Tagged Alain Delon, Kristen Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando, mirrors, Supernatural
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June 2016 Viewing Diary
Homeland Season 3, Episode 4 “Game On” (2013; d. David Nutter) Hey, Nutter, what’s up? Thanks for the Supernatural pilot. Going on 12 seasons now, you set it up real good. I have now watched up until Season 5 of … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Alain Delon, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, documentary, England, F. Scott Fitzgerald, family, France, Frank Capra, friends, Germany, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Stewart, July and Half of August, Nicholas Ray, Nina Hoss, Olivia de Havilland, Patricia Highsmith, Raoul Walsh, Robert Redford, Stanley Kubrick, Supernatural, Wim Wenders
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May 2016 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 3, Episode 5, “Bedtime Stories” (2007; d. Mike Rohl) So silly. Supernatural, Season 3, Episode 6, “Red Sky at Morning” (2007; d. Cliff Bole) I like this episode a lot. I don’t care that the SPN writers threw … Continue reading
This Movie Could Only Have Been Made in 1968
I love how the title of this movie describes absolutely what you will see in the film itself. It would be like giving Star Wars the title A Bunch of Space Ships Flying Around and Shooting At Each Other. Or … Continue reading
Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 6: “Skin”
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeil written by John Shiban Dark doubles are a recurring theme in Supernatural. What is more frightening, more eerie, than to think of there being another one of you out there, someone who looks like you, … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged Alain Delon, Elia Kazan, John Shiban, Lana Turner, Quentin Tarantino, Sissy Spacek, SPN Season 1, Supernatural
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