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Tag Archives: Richard Gere
November 2024 Viewing Diary
Stranger Things, Season 2, episodes 5, 6, 7 (2016) Continuing the very slow “binge” watch with my niece Lucy, and having so much fun. She gets such a kick out of showing it to me. She knows every moment and … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Charles Vidor, comedy, documentary, drama, Edna O'Brien, film noir, Iranian film, Ireland, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Mohammad Rasoulof, Paul Schrader, Richard Gere, Rita Hayworth, romantic drama, sci-fi, Sidney Lumet, women directors
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“Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don’t know.” — Richard Gere
I re-posted a piece I wrote on Richard Gere for my newsletter. It’s his birthday today. The Narcissist at Home: Richard Gere in American Gigolo.
Posted in Actors, Movies
Tagged drama, mirrors, newsletter, Paul Schrader, Richard Gere
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Mirrors #5: For Oscilloscope: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Here it is, a piece I have wanted to write for years, and finally got around to it. For Oscilloscope: Mirror, Mirror: When Movie Characters Look Back at Themselves
Posted in Movies
Tagged Alain Delon, Faye Dunaway, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang, Gena Rowlands, John Travolta, Johnny Handsome, M, Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, Martin Sheen, Mickey Rourke, mirrors, Paul Schrader, Peter Lorre, Richard Gere, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Shakespeare, Sylvester Stallone, Taxi Driver
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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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December 2017 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 11 (2015-16) What an incredible season, right up until the moment …. it was not an incredible season. I hadn’t re-watched in its entirety since it aired, although I cherry-picked favorite episodes to re-watch (of which there are … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Coen brothers, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, documentary, Elizabeth Taylor, France, Garrett Hedlund, Georgia, Jack Kerouac, Jean Renoir, Jeremy Renner, John Huston, Julie Harris, Kentucker Audley, Margaret Atwood, Marlon Brando, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Gere, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Supernatural, women directors, Zodiac
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The Narcissist At Home: Julian In American Gigolo
Who are we when we are alone and we feel totally private? Private moments are difficult to capture on film. You know it when you see it. Perhaps the most classic example is Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle, talking to … Continue reading
Days of Heaven (1978); Dir. Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven is grandiose, leisurely, even melodramatic, in giving us the pictures of the vistas we see of the Texas panhandle. Every corner of the giant screen is packed with beauty, arresting images, startling closeups of dew … Continue reading
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Tagged Days of Heaven, Linda Manz, Richard Gere, Sam Shepard, Terrence Malick
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Movie Poster: An Officer and a Gentleman
I like this poster for its old-fashioned feel (reminiscent of the sweeping romances of the 1940s), and the fact that it’s a drawing – not photos. Gives a strange story-book feel to it, rather epic, which I think is appropriate. … Continue reading
Reading and Watching
— finished Bleak House yesterday morning. My God! What a book! — started and finished The Road yesterday. Could not put it down. What a horrifying story. Scary, too: there were 2 moments in particular when I literally gasped out … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Anne Enright, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Gere
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Richard Gere: “his silky walk and fluid gestures”
In this review of The Bee Season (which sounds very interesting)Manohla Dargis has this pointed bit of analysis of Richard Gere’s acting: The casting of Mr. Gere proves a challenge the filmmakers never surmount – not only because of his … Continue reading