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Hace 4 días · In Rocky, which he wrote and stars in, he’s a thirty-year-old club fighter who works as a strong-arm man, collecting money for a loan shark. Rocky never got anywhere, and he has nothing; he lives in a Philadelphia tenement, and even the name he fights under—the Italian Stallion—has become a joke.
I watched Slap Shot (1977) The greatest sports film of all time. (Yes, I will make my stand on this hill). Paul Newman is godlike in his beauty, Strother Martin is appropriately slimy, and great character performances throughout. I was just trying to capture the spirit of the thing, Reg. Now follow it up with Goon. The most underrated movie ever.
Hace 3 días · As Pauline Kael said in her review of the movie, “This film doesn’t operate on the level of moral judgment of what Travis does.” Thanks for reading Noticing Noticing! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Hace 4 días · Photograph from Alamy. Elaine May became famous at twenty-five and rich soon thereafter, but it took her another decade to figure out what to do with her life, by which point she was too far ahead ...
Hace 3 días · What You Wish For (2023) Genre: Thriller Director: Nicholas Tomnay Stars: Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, Penelope Mitchell, Juan Carlos Messier. Plot: Ryan is a talented, down-on-his-luck chef with crushing gambling problems.Circumstances being what they are, he leaves town in a hurry for the safe haven of an unnamed Latin American country where his friend Jack, a more prestigious ...
Hace 4 días · From the raw beginnings of criticism before D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation' to the incendiary Pauline Kael-Andrew Sarris debates of the 1960s and 70s, to the battle today between youthful on-liners and the print establishment, this documentary tells all through the insights and expertise of a diverse group of passionate film ...
Hace 5 días · Stephanie Zacharek is a film critic from America author known for the movie What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
