Monday, April 6, 2026

Incident By a Bank (2010)

 
INCIDENT BY A BANK  (2010)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Ruben Östlund
    Bahador Foladi, Ramtin Parvaneh, Leif Edlund,
    Rasmus Lindgren, Henrik Vikman, Per Olaf Albrektsson
A movie about a failed bank robbery, done in a single 12-minute take (shot outside the bank) and apparently based on an actual incident. It plays like a documentary. The action looks real and the choreography is neatly worked out. 

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Wolfs (2024)

 
WOLFS  (2024)  ¢ ¢
    D: Jon Watts
    George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams
Clooney and Pitt play rival cleanup men called in to make a dead body in a luxury hotel suite disappear. It gets more complicated than that, but not in a way that's ever very interesting. Brad and George trade wisecracks throughout, but they don't look like they're enjoying it all that much, and everything about the movie feels old and tired, from the derivative "Pulp Fiction" setup to the recycled "Butch Cassidy" conclusion. Visually, there's an awful lot of darkness. The musical score's not bad. 

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Strongroom (1962)

 
STRONGROOM  (1962)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Vernon Sewell
    Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon, Ann Lynn,
    Keith Faulkner, William Morgan Sheppard
Three bank robbers pull off a heist and make their getaway, leaving two people - the bank's manager and his secretary - locked in the vault. They're home free, till they realize it's a holiday weekend, the vault is airtight, and by the time the bank opens on Tuesday morning, those two people will be dead. Not wanting to add murder to their rap sheet, they decide to break back into the bank before it's too late. Implausible, to be sure, but a nifty, little, low-budget thriller starring nobody you've ever heard of, except maybe Derren Nesbitt, who would later play the arrogant Gestapo officer in "Where Eagles Dare". The final closeup shot is both comical and - for the bank robbers - devastating.

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Stranger On the Run (1967)

 
STRANGER ON THE RUN  (1967)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Don Siegel
    Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks,
    Dan Duryea, Sal Mineo, Lloyd Bochner,
    Michael Burns, Tom Reese, Bernie Hamilton,
    Walter Burke, Madlyn Rhue, Zalman King
A bum played by Henry Fonda gets thrown out of a boxcar in a dusty western town, does a little work in exchange for a shot of whiskey, and starts looking for a woman nobody seems to want to talk about. When the woman turns up murdered, the bum becomes a suspect, on the run from some railroad vigilantes who want to hang him. Dan Duryea has a good late-career role as an old gunman who functions as the posse's conscience, but there's some uncertainty in the script, especially with the Michael Parks character, a lawman whose values and motives are never entirely clear. He mumbles a lot, too. The ending could've gone in two very different directions. See if you think the filmmakers chose the right one. Made for TV. 

Sunday, March 29, 2026

The Teachers' Lounge (2023)


THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE  (2023)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Ilker Çatak
    Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Eva Löbau
    Rafael Stachowiak, Michael Klammer, Leonard Stettnisch,
    Can Rodenbostel, Vincent Stachowiak, Padmé Hamdemir,
    Elsa Krieger, Kathrin Wehlisch, Kersten Reimann
In a middle school somewhere in Germany, a theft has occurred, and compelling evidence suggests who's responsible. A first-year teacher gets caught up in the investigation, but the more she tries to do what's right, the more she's vilified by everybody else. A contender for the Oscar for best foreign feature - it lost to "The Zone of Interest" - with a strong central performance by Leonie Benesch as a compassionate idealist trapped in a claustrophobic nightmare in a movie that never leaves the school.

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Fan Dance (1942)


FAN DANCE  (1942)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: [?]
Legendary stripper Sally Rand performs her most famous routine in a Soundies short. The effect is more elegant than revealing. Memorably recreated in Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" (1983), with Peggy Davis twirling the fans. 

Sunday, March 22, 2026

Megalopolis (2024)

 
MEGALOPOLIS  (2024)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Francis Ford Coppola 
    Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel,
    Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Talia Shire,
    Jason Schwartzman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney,
    Chloe Fineman, Balthazar Getty, Dustin Hoffman
Francis Ford Coppola's grandiose hallucination about fashion, architecture, politics, love, time, greed, arrogance, power and just about everything else is a monument to epic ambition and narrative incoherence. Five minutes in, I was hopelessly lost, and nothing happened in the next two hours to change that. My colleague Ms. Applebaum thought drugs might help. I'm not sure about that. 

Friday, March 20, 2026

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

 
ZIEGFELD GIRL  (1941)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Robert Z. Leonard
    James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr,
    Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, 
    Edward Everett Horton, Charles Winninger,
    Ian Hunter, Philip Dorn, Paul Kelly, Eve Arden,
    Dan Dailey, Felix Bressart, Fay Holden, Al Sheen
Three young women break into the Ziegfeld Follies. Romance and melodrama follow. Busby Berkeley staged the production numbers, but the pre-Code stuff he did back in the early '30s was more fun. Judy singing "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" is a highlight. The costumes are over-the-top. 

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Raggedy Man (1981)

 
RAGGEDY MAN  (1981)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Jack Fisk
    Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard,
    William Sanderson, Tracey Walter, R.G. Armstrong,
    Henry Thomas, Carey Hollis Jr., Bill Thurman
There's a lot of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in this movie, which stars Sissy Spacek as a small-town telephone operator in World War Two Texas, stuck in a job she longs to escape and doing her best to raise two active young boys. There's a Boo Radley character, the scarred, mysterious "raggedy man," keeping a watchful eye on the woman and her kids and pushing a lawn mower around. There's a fleeting shot at romance with a sailor (Eric Roberts) that doesn't last long, and a threat in the form of two menacing cretins played by Tracey Walter and William Sanderson. Director Jack Fisk (Spacek's husband) has worked mostly as a production designer and knows how to make a period piece look good. Jerry Goldsmith composed the music, and if you remember Elmer Bernstein's score for "To Kill a Mockingbird", that'll feel just right, too.

Monday, March 16, 2026

Philo Vance Returns (1947)


PHILO VANCE RETURNS  (1947)  ¢ 1/2
    D: William Beaudine 
    William Wright, Vivian Austin, Leon Belasco,
    Clara Glandick, Damian O'Flynn, Iris Adrian
When the ex-wives of a wealthy playboy start turning up dead (along with the playboy himself), it's up to Philo Vance to crack the case before everybody lands in the morgue. A poverty-row whodunit with a solution  you could probably figure out on your own without the help of a B-movie private eye. William Powell had played Vance a few times in the early sound era, but this is a long way from those films, and Wright is a long way from William Powell. 

Saturday, March 14, 2026

On the Rocks (2020)

 
ON THE ROCKS  (2020)  ¢ ¢
    D: Sofia Coppola
    Rashida Jones, Bill Murray, Marlon Wayans,
    Jessica Henwick, Jenny Slate, Barbara Bain
With Woody Allen's career tailing off at this point, I guess somebody has to make movies about the kinds of people who can still afford to live in Manhattan. So here's Sofia Coppola with a story about a 39-year-old writer and mother of two (Rashida Jones) who, aided and abetted by her meddling father (Bill Murray), starts to suspect her husband is having an affair. The affluent have their problems, too, it seems, and they're not any better at solving them than the rest of us. Murray and Jones are both good, but the setup feels flimsy, and Murray's casual misanthropy has an unpleasant edge. 

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Platinum Blonde (1931)


PLATINUM BLONDE  (1931)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Frank Capra
    Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams,
    Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breese
    Walter Catlett, Claud Allister, Louise Closser Hale
A newspaper reporter played by Robert Williams marries a society dame, which only confirms what he already knew: He doesn't like wearing garters or living in a gilded cage. Jean Harlow plays the rich girl (the "platinum blonde"). Loretta Young plays a fellow reporter the newsman didn't realize he was crazy about all along. Frank Capra keeps things moving, and there's some pre-Code wit in the script. Young and Harlow are the names everybody's heard of, but the real standout is Williams, who has the nonchalant manner of Bing Crosby and an easy way with a line that makes you wonder what he might've done if he hadn't died of peritonitis four days after the picture's release. 

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Women Behind Bars (1974)


WOMEN BEHIND BARS  (1974)  ¢
    D: Rick Deconnink (Jess Franco)
    Lina Romay, Martine Steed, Roger Darton,
    Ronald Weiss, Nathalie Chape, Clifford Brown
A woman goes to prison for shooting her boyfriend, and there's some junk plot about a diamond heist. There's a lesbian enounter and a girl being whipped and a bitch matron and a lot of tough talk, because these women won't take shit from nobody. The sex scenes look like bad '70s porn, which they are, and the nudity is the definition of gratuitous. Jess Franco strikes again. 

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Quote File / Take 28

 
"I'm gonna puke. No one eats alpacas."
  Madeleine Arthur in "Color Out of Space"

"I'm free. And all it took was a bullet to the head."  
  Sophie Thatcher in "Companion"

"I'm a cat, man, but, like, I don't have nine lives."
  Chuck Berry in "Go, Johnny, Go"

"I'll count to eight, and if you haven't smiled, 
  I'll strangle you."
  Jean-Paul Belmondo to Jean Seberg in "Breathless"

"I don't know where I'm goin', but I can't wait 
  to get there."
  Kristi McNichol in "Two Moon Junction"

"I've always dreamt of meeting a cockroach 
  breeder."
  Eva Green in "Womb"

Friday, March 6, 2026

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

 
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS  (1950)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Otto Preminger
    Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill,
    Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden,
    Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens, Neville Brand
A cop who has a habit of beating up suspects accidentally kills one and tries to pin the rap on the gangster. What could go wrong? As it turns out, just about everything. Dana Andrews plays the cop, who's like a prototype of Dirty Harry, but without a sense of humor. Eddie Muller, who knows all about this stuff, says nobody ever pulled off wearing a fedora better than Dana Andrews. 

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Thelma (2024)

 
THELMA  (2024)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Josh Margolin
    June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree,
    Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, Malcolm McDowell
When an old woman named Thelma loses $10,000 in a telephone scam, her family starts to think about moving her to a different level of care. Thelma, faced with the everyday issues of aging, has a different idea, and takes off on a mission to track down the scammers and get her money back. On the plausibility scale, this lands somewhere between highly unlikely and no way in hell, and while it's nicely cast and acted, it's way too cute. The French movie "Driving Madeleine" covered similar material with more subtlety and restraint. Richard Roundtree's last film. 

Monday, March 2, 2026

News of the World (2020)

 
NEWS OF THE WORLD  (2020)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Paul Greengrass
    Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Elizabeth Marvel,
    Mare Winingham, Ray McKinnon, Fred Hechinger,
    Michael Angelo Covino, Thomas Francis Murphy
As much as anything, "News of the World" is a movie about stories. Tom Hanks plays Captain Thomas Jefferson Kidd (yes, Captain Kidd), a Civil War veteran traveling from town to town in 1870 Texas, reading stories out of newspapers to folks who presumably don't have access to CNN or NPR. Out on the trail one day, he comes across a young girl (Helena  Zengel), who's just spent six years living with the Kiowa, after a raid that killed her family. Now an Army raid has killed her Kiowa family, and the kid is lost. And wild. Unable to find anybody who will take her in, the newsman reluctantly embarks on a 400-mile journey to her only remaining relatives, an aunt and uncle who live down toward San Antonio. It's a perilous adventure, and there's an old-fashioned, storybook feel to the way it plays out. The captain turns out to be just as damaged and haunted as the girl is, and a brief exchange along the way is revealing: He tells her (in English) that the only way to face the future is to forget the past. She replies (in Kiowa) that the only way to move on is to remember it. Hanks is good - you expect that - and Zengel doesn't miss a step keeping up with him. Their evolving relationship and the way they play off each other are the heart and soul of the movie. It's an odyssey, really, and a reminder that western stories aren't just our national myth. They're our national fairy tale. 

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Grateful Dead (1995)

 
GRATEFUL DEAD  (1995)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Paul McCartney
Linda McCartney's black-and-white photos of the Dead in the '60s, with "Anthem of the Sun" on the soundtrack.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

All Is Full of Love (1999)

 
ALL IS FULL OF LOVE  (1999)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Chris Cunningham 
    Björk
Love among the androids, with music by Björk.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Melodies Old and New (1942)

 
MELODIES OLD AND NEW  (1942)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Edward L. Cahn
    George "Spanky" McFarland, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin,
    Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Walter Wills, Robert Blake
The Our Gang kids put on a show.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Pharaoh's Curse (1957)

 
PHARAOH'S CURSE  (1957)  ¢ ¢
    D: Lee Sholem
    Mark Dana, Ziva Rodann, Diane Brewster
    Ben Wright, Guy Prescott, George N. Neise
In 1902, a small team of Brits head out into the Valley of Kings, where an obsessed archeologist is about to desecrate an ancient tomb. How could something like that be a bad idea? According to IMDb, Lee Sholem was hired to direct because he had a reputation for shooting cheap and quick.(His nickname was "Roll 'Em Sholem".) The movie was shot in six days. The exteriors, filmed in Death Valley, were done in one.

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Persecution (2009)

 
PERSECUTION  (2009)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Patrice Chéreau
    Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, 
    Jean-Huges Anglade, Michel Duchaussoy,
    Gilles Cohen, Alex Descas, Hiam Abbass 
A gloomy, antisocial guy who remodels apartments and volunteers in a retirement home mopes around Paris with others who are equally sad and screwed up. The only exception is his girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and even she admits she likes him better when they're apart. So it's kind of a downer, but it's not the worst French movie in which unhappy characters brood and smoke cigarettes. I don't know what movie that would be, and I hope I never find out.

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

M*A*S*H (1970)


M*A*S*H  (1970)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Robert Altman
    Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt,
    Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen,
    Rene Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Jo Ann Pflug,
    John Shuck, Bud Cort, Michael Murphy, G. Wood,
    Carl Gottlieb, Dawne Damon, David Arkin
. . . Did Hawkeye steal that Jeep? . . . Captain Pierce and me have been boozing all day and . . . Don't you guys use olives? . . . I got a book here. It's got a lot of pictures in it . . . No food! Sex! I want sex! Give me some sex! . . . I'm Dr. Jekyll, actually, and this is my friend, Mr. Hyde . . . It worked for Hitler and Eva Braun . . . Is this The Bickersons? I love them . . . I'll bet she's not a real blonde . . . Major Burns will be out of your tent in 24 hours . . . All right, bub, your fucking head's coming right off . . . This isn't a hospital! It's an insane asylum! . . . We have got to share this with the rest of the camp . . . If I nail Hot Lips and hit Hawkeye, can I go home? . . . Bastard, 88, called me a coon . . . Anybody know if this is an officer or an enlisted man? . . . He's an enlisted man . . . Make the stitches big . . . Goddamn Army . . . 

Robert Duvall
(1931-2026)

Bud Cort
(1948-2026)

Sunday, February 15, 2026

All Hat (2007)

 
ALL HAT  (2007)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Leonard Farlinger
    Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine, Carmine Cangialosi,
    Lisa Ray, Rachael Leigh Cook, David Alpay,
    Ernie Hudson, Gary Farmer, Graham Greene
Struggling farmers try to hold off greedy developers, and there's a horse race. Bill Frisell's music weaves in and out on the soundtrack, and Keith Carradine strums a guitar, downs a shot, takes a gun off the bad guy and once again makes movie acting look easy. 

Friday, February 13, 2026

American Fiction (2023)

 
AMERICAN FICTION  (2023)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Cord Jefferson
    Jeffrey Wright, Leslie Uggams, Sterling K. Brown,
    Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz,
    Issa Rae, Keith David, Myra Lucretia Taylor
A variation on Spike Lee's "Bamboozled", with the story centered around book publishing rather than television. Jeffrey Wright plays a novelist whose books are admired by critics but ignored by readers. Faced with mounting financial obligations and appalled by what passes for "black" literature on the bestseller lists, he dashes off a scurrilous piece of junk and passes the manuscript on to his dubious agent. In no time at all, a publisher has picked it up with a $750,000 advance, movie deals worth millions are in the works, and life has become infinitely more complicated. A brilliant first feature from writer/director Cord Jefferson. If you've seen "Bamboozled", you'll know the track it's on. The satire hits  home - in your face and all the way to your funny bone.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

 
EVIL UNDER THE SUN  (1982)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Guy Hamilton
    Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Jane Birkin,
    Roddy McDowall, Diana Rigg, James Mason,
    Denis Quilley, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay
Belgian (not French) detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) finds himself on a small island in the Adriatic where the center of activity is a luxury hotel run by Maggie Smith. There are other affluent guests, and it takes about half the movie before one of them gets bumped off and Poirot can put his sleuthing skills to work. A murder mystery that gets by on its cast and locations as much as its whodunit plot. The music is Cole Porter, and Ustinov mangles English and French with equal abandon. Other standouts among the suspects: Roddy McDowall as a flaming gossip writer, and Smith and Diana Rigg as old theater colleagues who don't much like each other. Filmed in Majorca.

Monday, February 9, 2026

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

 
GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (2024) ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Gil Kenan
    McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Kumail Nanjiani,
    Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Patton Oswalt, Logan Kim,
    Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, Annie Potts,
    Emily Ann Lind, James Acaster, William Atherton
Recycled ectoplasm.

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Black Tuesday (1954)

 
BLACK TUESDAY  (1954)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Hugo Fregonese
    Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves, Jean Parker,
    Milburn Stone, Sylvia Findley, Jack Kelly
Edward G. Robinson at his most vicious plays a gangster who breaks out of prison on the day he's scheduled to die in the electric chair. Peter Graves plays a fellow con who has some stolen loot stashed away, and Robinson wants that money real bad. Some of this plays like "Key Largo", with Robinson snarling abuse at a handful of hostages as the cops close in. Robinson's career was on the margins at the time, after his run-ins with the HUAC committee. Pacing his prison cell, he's literally a caged animal. It's an angry, haunted performance. 

Thursday, February 5, 2026

4:44 Last Day On Earth (2011)

 
4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH  (2011)  ¢ ¢
    D: Abel Ferrara
    Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne,
    Trung Nguyen, Pat Kiernan, Anita Pallenberg 
Two people sharing a Manhattan loft wait for the end of the world. One's an artist, one's a recovering junkie, and the end is not far off. Al Gore makes a televised appearance, which makes you wonder: Why didn't we listen to Al Gore when it still would've made a difference? 

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Beau Is Afraid (2023)

 
BEAU IS AFRAID  (2023)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Ari Aster
    Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuP0ne, Amy Ryan,
    Nathan Lane, Parker Posey, Kylie Rogers,
    Bill Hader, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Beau is also deeply fucked-up and racked with a truckload of crippling guilt. Beau is in a nightmare he can't escape, because the nightmare is his life. Beau is played by Joaquin Phoenix in an ambitious, surreal psychodrama that might be more compelling if it had a running time shorter than 179 minutes. The pure nightmare stuff is the best. (The first couple of reels are truly frightening.) It loses something the more it tries to explain itself. And then there's Beau's mother. And the monster in the attic. (Don't ask.) Psych majors will want to take a look.

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)

 
GOLD OF THE AMAZON WOMEN  (1979)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Mark L. Lester
    Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasance,
    Richard Romanus, Robert Minor, Maggie Jean Smith,
    Bond Gideon, Susan Miller, Sarita Butterfield
A square-jawed explorer played by Bo Svenson goes into the jungle looking for the Seven Cities of Gold, but an evil drug lord played by Donald Pleasance wants the gold for himself, and (of course) there's a tribe of Amazons. A sluggishly paced, low-cost adventure made in Trinidad for NBC television. Nothing to write home about, or to go into the jungle for, either. Anita Ekberg, defining the concept of statuesque, plays the queen of the Amazons. 

Thursday, January 29, 2026

The 2025 Covie Awards


The Covie Awards are as bogus as climate change is real. They were created during the pandemic to recognize cinematic achievement in an ever-shifting variety of categories. If there were actual awards to hand out, and anybody cared who they got handed out to, the Movie Buzzard would recognize the following:

Picture: "Eddington" (2025)
Actress: Fernanda Torres in "I'm Still Here" (2024)
Actor: Jesse Plemmons in "Begonia" (2025)
Supporting Actress: Shirley Henderson in "I Really Hate My Job" (2007)
Supporting Actor: Bob Burrus in "Tully" (2003)
Cameo: Hugh Grant in "Glass Onion" (2022)
Ensemble: "Paris" (2008)
Couple: Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in "American Ultra" (2015)
Juvenile Performance: Giulia Salerno in "Misunderstood" (2014)
Revival: "Dogma" (1999)
Foreign Language Film: "Nouvelle Vague" (2025)
Documentary: "The American Revolution" (2025)
Short Film: "Return To Glennascaul" (1952)
Director: Ryan Coogler, "Sinners" (2025)
Cinematography: David Chambille, "Nouvelle Vague" (2025)
Musical Score: Mica Levy, "The Zone of Interest" (2024)
Production Design: "Frankenstein" (2025)
Best Villain: Juliette Lewis in "The Thicket" (2024)
Best Mad Scene: Sally Hawkins in "Bring Her Back" (2025)
Better With Age: Jenny Agutter in "Sometimes Always Never" (2018)
Final Bow: Jane Birkin in "Jane By Charlotte" (2021)
Title Sequence: "American Ultra" (2015)
Poster Art: "The Astounding She-Monster" (1957)
Sound: "Overlord" (1975)
Why Closeups Were Invented: Tilda Swinton in "The Room Next Door" (2024)
Best Performance By an Actress Playing Herself: Robin Wright in "The Congress" (2013)
Best Performance By an Actress With a Shaved Head: Emma Stone in "Bugonia" (2025)
Best Charlton Heston Performance By an Actor Who's Not Charlton Heston: Barry Sullivan in "Planet of the Vampires" (1965)
Chewing the Scenery: Charles Laughton in "Devil and the Deep" (1932)
Maynard G. Krebs Award For Beatnik Slang: The cats at the club in "The Love Statue" (1965)
Most Eye-Catching Nude Scene: Julianne Nicholson in "Flannel Pajamas" (2006)
Most Discreet Nude Scene: Claudette Colbert in "Four Frightened People" (1934)
Least Inhibited Nude Couple: Raquel Karro and Rodrigo Bolzan in "Pendular" (2017)
How To Stuff a Wild Bikini: "Raquel Welch in "Fathom" (1967)
Most Evil Juvenile Performance: Earl Rhodes in "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" (1976)
American Tobacco Institute Award For Achievement In Smoking: Adrien Brody in "The Brutalist"(2024)
Speed Racing: "Grand Prix" (1966)
Gender Bent: "Jacky In the Kingdom of Women" (2014)
Dead Birds and Time Loops: "Triangle" (2009)
Stuck: Zeb Haradon and Robin Ballard in "Elevator Movie" (2004)
Missing a Few Teeth: Chris Cooper in "Adaptation" (2002)
Lying Down On the Job: Sandra Bernhard in "The Third Date" (2003)
Over the Top and Around the Bend: Amy Madigan in "Weapons" (2025)
Still Crazy After All These Years: Bill Lee in "Spaceman" (2006)
Best Movie To Watch Stoned (Maybe): "Else" (2024)
Hundreds of Pies: "The Battle of the Century" (1927)
There Goes Chicago: "A House of Dynamite" (2025)
All Thumbs: Uma Thurman in "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1993)
Best Pole-Dancing: Olivia Graves in "Hundreds of Beavers" (2022)
Wickedest Lipstick: Jessica Chastain in "Salomé" (2013)
Best Name For an Actress In a Low-Budget Nudie Flick: Tiffany Tickles in "I Was a Teenage Strangler" (1997)
Weirdest Nicolas Cage Movie: "Color Out of Space" (2019)
Mind the Age Gap: Joan Crawford and Ty Hardin in "Berserk" (1967)
Shoot the Dog: "What Just Happened" (2008)
Herman Scobie Award For Career Achievement: 
John Waters

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The Godfather Part II


THE GODFATHER PART II  (1974  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Francis Ford Coppola 
    Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall,
    Diane Keaton, John Cazale, Talia Shire,
    Lee Strasberg, G.D. Spradlin, Bruno Kirby
Continuing the saga of the Corleone family, from Don Vito's origin story in the first part of the 20th century to Michael's ruthless reign in the middle of it. If the original "Godfather" was a model of efficiency and restraint, this is the opposite of that. It's more ambitious and wide-ranging, but it goes on too long, and the soap-opera element, which was tightly controlled before, spills over. The stuff with Robert De Niro playing the young Vito is compelling, but when Michael (Al Pacino) and Kay (Diane Keaton) get into a screaming match over the fate of their marriage and their dead infant son, it starts to feel unhinged. The movie won an Oscar for best picture, and there are those who consider it to be better than the first film, but . . . it's not.

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Evelyn Prentice (1934)

 
EVELYN PRENTICE  (1934)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: William K. Howard
    William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel,
    Isabel Jewell, Rosalind Russell, Harvey Stephens,
    Edward Brophy, Frank Conroy, Cora Sue Collins
When a blackmailing cad is murdered, a high-end att0rney takes up the defense of the woman accused of killing him, not knowing that his own wife could be the one who pulled the trigger. A smartly played crime drama with an implausible courtroom conclusion. Loy and Powell's followup to "The Thin Man", and Rosalind Russel's first film. 

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

A Complete Unknown (2024)

 
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN  (2024)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: James Mangold
    Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning,
    Monica Barbaro, Scott McNary, Boyd Holbrook
Bob Dylan, the early years, tracking the life and career of the shape-shifting trubadour from his arrival in New York City in 1961 to his electrified performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Timothée Chalamet plays the evasive, elusive Dylan, tousled hair, shades, cigarettes and all, and he's good. So is Edward Norton as Pete Seeger. Both do their own singing, along with Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. The week after I saw the movie, I was at a party where somebody suggested that you can't really appreciate Dylan if you're not at least in your 70s, and there might be something to that. For anybody who was around and remembers the period, the film will have an extra edge. At the same time, the art direction perfectly captures the era - check out the old Studebakers - recreating a time that seems like prehistory now, when, starting out at least, nobody knew who Bob Dylan was, and nobody cared. 

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Chasers (1994)


CHASERS  (1994)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Dennis Hopper 
    Tom Berenger, William McNamara, Erika Eleniak,
    Crispin Glover, Gary Busey, Dean Stockwell,
    Seymour Cassell, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper
A broadly played but deadly dull comedy about a couple of Navy shore patrolmen assigned to escort a prisoner to the brig. The hitch is that the prisoner in question is a woman played by Playboy model Erika Eleniak. It's like "The Last Detail" played for laughs, or it would be, if there were any.

Friday, January 16, 2026

Backtrack (1990)

 
BACKTRACK  (1990)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Vincent Price,
    Joe Pesci, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro,
    Fred Ward, Catherine Keener, Charlie Sheen,
    Helena Kallianiotes, Julie Adams, Bob Dylan
An oddball gangster romance starring Dennis Hopper as a hit man and Jodie Foster as an artist who's witnessed a gangland murder. He's supposed to kill her, but she turns out to be more than he bargained for, and the two of them end up on the run together, trying to elude both the mob and the law. When Dennis gets stressed, he blows a few notes on a phallic saxophone, while Jodie, choosing life over death, tags along, not sure if she's being kidnapped or what's going on. Joe Pesci, Dean Stockwell and John Turturro play the gangsters trying to track them down. (Check out Turturro's shoes.) Vincent Price plays the godfather. Catherine Keener checks in for a minute or two as a truck driver on her way to Canada, and Bob Dylan has an uncredited cameo as a chainsaw artist. It's all pretty crazy, and that seems to be the point: Dennis Hopper with his demons (apparently) under control and his tongue buried deep in his cheek.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Top Ten Movies of 2025


MOVIES I LIKED A LOT: 
"Eddington" (2025)
"Nouvelle Vague" (2025)
"Sinners" (2025)
"The American Revolution" (2025)
"Begonia" (2025)
"Companion" (2025)
"I'm Still Here" (2024)
"No Other Land" (2024)
"Overlord" (1975)
"American Ultra" (2015)

MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:
"Weapons" (2025)
"A House of Dynamite" (2025)
"F1" (2025)
"I Really Hate My Job" (2007)
"One Battle After Another" (2025)
"Never Let Me Go" (2010)
"The Congress" (2013)
"Joe" (2013)
"Womb" (2010)
"Triangle" (2009)

SECRET TREASURES:
"Otley" (1969)
"Cattle Annie and Little Britches" (1980)
"Just Visiting" (2001)
"Seven Footprints To Satan" (1929)

BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN:
"Dogma" (1999) 
"Linda Linda Linda" (2005)

FOUR FROM THE VIDEO VAULT:
"Blazing Saddles" (1974)
"Breathless" (1960)
"Return To Glennascaul" (1952)
"The Battle of the Century" (1927)

TOXIC WASTE:
"I Was a Teenage Strangler" (1997)

Monday, January 12, 2026

Hardcore (2004)

 
HARDCORE  (2004)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Dennis Iliadis
    Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Ioannis Pappazisis,
    Omiros Poulakis, Andreas Marianos, Dimitris Liolios
A Greek movie about the dreary, fucked-up lives of two young prostitutes, one adventurous and outgoing and the other guarded and morose. There are some unexpected (and unlikely) turns in the story and occasional bits of animation, suggesting that some of what you're watching might be fantasy, but overall it's pretty depressing, and it comes with an implied teen safety advisory: If you're a kid who's burned down your parents' house and run away from home, a brothel in Athens might not be where you want to end up.

Saturday, January 10, 2026

High Maintenance (2006}


HIGH MAINTENANCE  (2006)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Phillip Van 
    Nicolette Krebitz, Wanja Mues
A woman becomes bored with her male companion and decides to trade him in on another model, but there's a switch. Literally.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Gorp (1980)


GORP  (1980)  1/2 ¢
    D: Joseph Ruben
    Michael Lembeck, Dennis Quaid, Philip Casnoff,
    Fran Drescher, David Huddleston, Lou Wagner
    Richard Beauchamp, Julius Harris, Rosanna Arquette
A witless slob comedy about the supposedly riotous antics of the kitchen help and waitstaff at a Jewish summer camp. To call the humor in this sophomoric would be an insult to all sophomores. Oy.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

The Tenth Inning (2010)

 
THE TENTH INNING  (2010)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Ken Burns goes back to the ballpark to update his epic documentary on baseball. This will appeal to just about anybody who cares about the game, but especially fans of the Yankees and Red Sox. (Burns is a die-hard Red Sox fan and was inspired to make the movie when the team finally won the World Series.) The big story playing out over the time the film covers is the steroids scandal, so there's a lot of Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds, at the expense of players who were just about as talented but not so conspicuously juiced. George Will, Bob Costas, Pedro Martinez and Joe Torre are among the witnesses. A plus for Mariners fans: Ichiro. A minus: Seattle's 116-win season in 2001 isn't even mentioned. 

Sunday, January 4, 2026

. . . And God Created Woman (1956)

 
. . . AND GOD CREATED WOMAN  (1956)  ¢ ¢
    D: Roger Vadim
    Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant
. . . and the movies created Bardot.

(1934-2025)

Friday, January 2, 2026

Final Reel 2025

 
Dust To the Wind:

PATRICK ADIARTE, 82, actor
“The King and I”
“High Time”
“Flower Drum Song”
JERRY ADLER, 96, actor
“Manhattan Murder Mystery”
“In Her Shoes”
“The Memory Thief”
SIAN BARBARA ALLEN, 78, actress
“You’ll Like My Mother”
“Scream, Pretty Peggy” 
"Billy Two Hats”
LONI ANDERSON, 79, actress
“A Night At the Roxbury”
“The Jayne Mansfield Story"
 “Stroker Ace”
BJORN ANDRESEN, 70, actor
“Death In Venice”
“Midsommar”
 “The Lost Ones”
GEORGE ARMITAGE, 82, writer, director
“Hit Man”
“Miami Blues”
“Grosse Pointe Blank”
DENIS ARNDT, 86, actor
“Basic Instinct"
 “Dead Heat”
“Distant Thunder”
ADRIANA ASTI, 94, actress
“Caligula”
“A Brief Vacation”
"Rocco and His Brothers"
NORA AUNOR, 71, actress
“Dementia”
“Last Target”
“The Womb”
PAMELA BACH, 62, actress
“Castle Rock"
 “Mansion of Blood”
“Nudity Required”
JOANNA BACON, 72, actress
“A Quiet Passion”
“Benediction”
 “Love Actually”
JEFF BAENA, 47, writer, director
“The Little Hours”
“Spin Me Round”
“Life After Beth”
JOE DON BAKER, 89, actor
“The Natural”
“Charley Varrick”
“Walking Tall”
MOHAMMED BAKRI, 72, actor, director
“Foreign Nights
 “Double Edge”
“Jenin, Jenin”
BRIGITTE BARDOT, 91, actress
“Contempt”
“The Truth”
“And God Created Woman”
DAVID WILSON BARNES, 52, actor
“Capote”
“Bridge of Spies”
“The Company Men” 
ROBERT BENTON, 92, writer, director
“Twilight”
“The Late Show"
 “Nobody’s Fool”
MICHÈLLE BURKE, 75, makeup artist
“Color of Night”
“The Clan of the Cave Bear”
“Vanilla Sky”
RUTH BUZZI, 88, actress
“Wishful Thinking”
“Up Your Alley”
“Freaky Friday”
GREG CANNOM, 73, makeup
“Watchmen”
“Hook”
“Titanic”
CLAUDIA CARDINALE, 97, actress
“The Professionals”
“Fitzcarraldo”
“The Pink Panther”
RENATO CASARO, 89, poster designer
“A Fistful of Dollars”
“The Princess Bride”
“Dances With Wolves”
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, 90, actor
“The Last Wave”
“The Towering Inferno”
“The Three Musketeers”
JACQUES CHARRIER, 88, actor
“Winter Wind"
 “An Evening In Paris”
“Babette Goes To War”
DELLA CHEN, 53, director
“She Marches In Chinatown”
PRESLEY CHWENEYAGAE, 40, actor
“More Than Just a Game”
“Africa United"
“The Number”
CHRISTINE CHOY, 73, producer, director
“Who Killed Vincent Chin?”
“Ha Ha Shanghai”'
“Mississippi Triangle”
JIMMY CLIFF, 81, musician, actor
“The Harder They Come”
“Club Paradise”
ARTHUR COHN, 98, producer
“Behind the Sun”
“The Etruscan Smile”
“Central Station”
KENNETH COLLEY, 87, actor
“Brassed Off”
“Firefox”
 “The Devils”
CORA SUE COLLINS, 98, actress
“Devil’s Squadron”
“Blood and Sand”
“The Harvester”
PAULINE COLLINS, 85, actress
“Shirley Valentine”
“City of Joy”
“Paradise Road”
BARRY MICHAEL COOPER, 66, writer
“Sugar Hill”
“Above the Rim”
“New Jack City”
MARA CORDAY, 95, actrss
“Tarantula”
“The Giant Claw”
 “Girls On the Loose”
STUART CRAIG, 83, production designer
“The English Patient”
“Shadowlands”
“The Elephant Man”
PAT CROWLEY, 91, actress
“Red Garters”
“Forever Female”
“Key Witness”
PHYLLIS DALTON, 99, costume designer
“Doctor Zhivago”
“The Princess Bride”
“Dead Again”
RON DEAN, 87, actor
“The Package”
“The Fugitive”
“Continental Divide”
PILAR DEL REY, 95, actress
“Giant”
“The Siege At Red River”
“Black Horse Canyon”
LESLIE DILLEY, 84, production designer
“The Abyss”
“Invaders From Mars”
“What About Bob?”
FRANCES DOEL, 81, writer, producer
“Crazy Mama”
 “The Sea Wolf”
“The Trip”
VERÓNICA ECHEGUI, 42, actress
“The Offering”
“Mist & the Maiden”
“The Cold Light of Day”
SAMANTHA EGGAR, 86, actress
“The Collector"
 “Walk Don’t Run”
“The Molly Maguires”
TAINA ELG, 95, actress
 “Les Girls”
“The 39 Steps”
“Hercules In New York”
HOMAYOUN ERSHADI, 78, actor
”Taste of Cherry”
“The Kite Runner”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
MARIANNE FAITHFULL, 78, singer, actress
“The Girl On the Motorcycle”
“Hamlet”
 “Marie Antoinette”
JULES FEIFFER, 95, writer
“Popeye”
“Little Murders”
“Carnal Knowledge”
KU FENG, 94, actor
“Death Triangle”
“Erotic Ghost Story”
“The Jail of No Return”
JAMES FOLEY, 71, director
“Glengarry Glen Ross"
 “At Close Range”
“Who’s That Girl?”
CONNIE FRANCIS, 87, singer, actress
“Follow the Boys”
“Where the Boys Are"
 “Looking For Love”
EILEEN FULTON, 91, actress
“Tinsel Town"
 “The Drum Beats Twice”
“Girls of the Night”
ED GALE, 61, actor
“Spaceballs”
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
“Deadly Attraction”
JOANNE GILBERT, 92, actress
“Red Garters”
“The Great Man”
"Ride Out For Revenge"
BRUCE GLOVER, 92, actor
“Chinatown”
“Ghost World”
“Diamonds Are Forever”
ADAM GREENBERG, 88, cinematographer
“The Terminator"
 “10 To Midnight”
“The Big Red One”
GRAHAM GREENE, 73, actor
“The Green Mile”
“Dances With Wolves"
 “Clearcut”
PETER GREENE, 60, actor
“The Usual Suspects"
“Pulp Fiction"
“Judgment Night”
GENE HACKMAN, 95, actor
“Unforgiven”
“The Conversation”
 “Bite the Bullet”
JOE HALE, 99, animator
“The Rescuers”
“Pete’s Dragon”
“One Hundred and One Dalmations”
LYNN HAMILTON, 95, actress
“Lady Sings the Blues"
 “Legal Eagles”
“Brother John”
WINGS HAUSER, 77, actor
“A Soldier’s Story”
“Dead Man Walking”
“Tough Guys Don’t Dance”
ALICE HIRSON, 95, actress
“The Glass House”
“Mass Appeal”
“Blind Date”
POLLY HOLLIDAY, 88, actress
“Gremlins”
 “Fair Game”
“All the President’s Men”
KATHLEEN HUGHES, 96, actress
“Cult of the Cobra”
“The Golden Blade"
 “Sally and Saint Anne” 
JIMMY HUNT, 85, actor
“Invaders From Mars"
 “The Mating of Millie”
“She Couldn’t Say No”
RICK HURST, 79, actor
“Steel Magnolias”
“Worth Winning”
“In the Line of Fire”
WILL HUTCHINS, 94, actor
“The Shooting
“Merrill’s Marauders”
“Spinout”
KEN JACOBS, 92, director, editor
“Green Wave”
“The Scenic Route”
“New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903”
STANLEY JAFFE, 84, producer
“Kramer vs. Kramer”
“The Accused”
“Black Rain”
HENRY JAGLOM, 87, writer, director
“Eating”
“Going Shopping”,
 “Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?”
CLAUDE JARMAN JR., 90, actor
“The Yearling”
“Rio Grande”
“Intruder In the Dust”
PETER JASON, 80, actor
“Seabiscuit”
“Hail Caesar!”
“Wild Bill”
DAVID JOHANSEN, 75, musician, actor
“200 Cigarettes”
“Scrooged”
“Let It Ride”
JONATHAN JOSS, 59, actor
“Almost Heroes”
“The Magnificent Seven"
 “Christmas In the Clouds”
JONATHAN KAPLAN, 77, director
“Heart Like a Wheel”
“Bad Girls”
“The Accused”
TCHEKY KARYO, 72, actor
“La Femme Nikita”
"GoldenEye”
“The Bear”
NICKY KATT, 54, actor
“Dazed and Confused”
 “The Limey”
“The Brave One” 
DIANE KEATON, 79, actress
“Annie Hall”
“The Godfather"
 “Radio Days”
UDO KEIR 81, actor
“Grindhouse"
 “Spy Games”
“Suspiria”
DAVID KETCHUM, 97, actor
“The Grasshopper"
 “The Main Event”
“Love At First Bite"
VAL KILMER, 65, actor
“The Doors"
 “Tombstone”
“Top Gun”
SALLY KIRKLAND, 84, actress
“Anna"
 “JFK”
“The Sting”,
MARILYN KNOWLDEN, 99, actress
“Show Boat”
“David Copperfield”
“Marie Antoinette”
TED KOTCHEFF, 94, director
"First Blood"
"North Dallas Forty"
"Billy Two Hats"
PETER KWONG, 73, actor
“The Golden Child”
"Gleaming the Cube”
“Big Trouble In Little China”
DIANE LADD, 89, actress
“Wild At Heart”
“Citizen Ruth”
“Chinatown”
MOHAMMED LAKHDAR-HAMINA, 91, writer, director
“Twilight of Shadows”
“Sandstorm”
“Chronicle of the Years of Fire”
JACK LILLEY, 91, actor, stunts
“Army of Darkness”
“Sudden Impact"
 “Once Upon a Texas Train”
DAVID LYNCH, 78, writer, director
“Blue Velvet”
“Lost Highway”
“The Straight Story”
KELLEY MACK, 33, actress
“Wheels On the Bus”
“Mr. Manhattan”
“Shot In the Dark”
MICHAEL MADSEN, 67, actor
“Reservoir Dogs”
 “Sin City”
“Mulholland Falls”
VALERIE MAHAFFEY, 71, actress
“Seabiscuit”
“Sully"
 “Jack and Jill”
PATTY MALONEY, 90, actress
“Under the Rainbow”
“The Addams Family"
 “Swing Shift”
JEAN MARSH, 90, actress
“The Eagle Has Landed"
 “Frenzy”
 “Jane Eyre”
WINK MARTINDALE, 91, disc jockey, game-show host
“Let’s Rock”
“Safety Patrol”
“Medusa: Dare To Be Truthful”
LEA MASSARI, 91, actress
"L’Avventura”
“The Colossus of Rhodes”
“Murmur of the Heart”
JULIAN MCMAHON, 56, actor
“Monster Party”
“The Surfer”
“Fantastic Four”
PENELOPE MILFORD, 77, actress
“Heathers”
“Valentino”
“Endless Love”
JAMES MITCHUM, 84, actor
“Thunder Road”
“In Harm’s Way”
“The Victors”
YOLANDA MONTES, 93, actress, dancer
“Detective”
“The Panther Women”
“Isle of the Snake People”
P.H. MORIARTY, 86, actor
“Jaws 3-D”
“Evil Never Dies,”
“The Long Good Friday”
MORRIS THE ALLIGATOR, 80 (at least), actor, alligator
“Happy Gilmore”
“Interview With the Vampire”
“Blues Brothers 2000”
TATSUYA NAKADAI, 92, actor
“Ran”
“Harakiri”
“I Am a  Cat”
ANDREA NEVINS, 63, director, producer
“The Other F Word”
“Hysterical"
 “The Cowboy and the Queen”
JAY NORTH, 73, actor
 “Pepe”
“The Teacher”
“Wild Wind”
ROSANNA NORTON, 80, costume designer
“Airplane!”
“The Stunt Man”
“Tron”
JOAN O’BRIEN, 89, actress
“The Alamo”
“Operation Petticoat”
“The Comancheros”
MARCEL OPHÜLS, 97, writer, director
“The Sorrow and the Pity”
“Hotel Terminus”
“A Sense of Loss”
ROBERTO ORCI, 51, producer
“Star Trek”
“The Mummy”
“Ender’s Game”
RICHARD NORTON, 75, actor
“Furiosa”
 “Lady Dragon”
“Under the Gun” 
GENEVIÈVE PAGE, 97, actress
“El Cid"
 “Belle de Jour”
“The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes”
LAR PARK-LINCOLN 63, actress
“Ghost Party”
“Autumn Road”
“From the Dark”
TED PEDAS, 93, producer
“Granite State”
“Whatever”
“Barton Fink”
MARK PEPLOE, 82, writer
“The Last Emperor”
“The Sheltering Sky”
“The Passenger”
JOAN PLOWRIGHT, 95, actress
“Enchated April”
“Equus”
“Tea With Mussolini”
AMOS POE, 76, director, writer, producer
“The Blank Generation”
“A Walk In the Park”
“Alphabet City”
PRISCILLA POINTER, 100, actress
“Carrie”
“Blue Velvet”
“Nickelodeon”
LORNA RAVER, 81, actress
“Freeway”
“Drag Me To Hell”
“Breaking Waves”
ROBERT REDFORD, 89, actor, director, producer
“Downhill Racer”
“The Candidate
 “The Natural”
ROB REINER, 78, actor, writer, director
“This Is Spinal Tap”
“The Princess Bride”
“When Harry Met Sally”
CLIVE REVILL, 94, actor
“Let Him Have It”
“The Black Windmill”
“A Severed Head”
TONY ROBERTS, 85, actor
“Annie Hall”
“Stardust Memories”
“Radio Days”
MICHAEL ROEMER, 97, director
“Dying”
“The Plot Against Harry”
“Nothing But a Man”
TRISTAN ROGERS, 79, actor
”Frustrated Wives
 “Soulmates”
“The Flesh and Blood Show”
RONNIE RONDELL, 88, stunts
“Twister”
“Waterworld”
“Speed”
SALLI SACHSE, 82, actress
“Devil’s Angels”
“The Trip”
“How To Stuff a Wild Bikini”
GAILARD SARTAIN, 81, actor
“Equinox”
“The Grifters”
 “All of Me”
PRUNELLA SCALES, 92, actress
“Wolf”
“An Ideal Husband”
“Howard’s End”
LALO SCHIFFRIN, 93, composer
“Dirty Harry”
 “Bullitt”
“Hell In the Pacific”
PIPPA SCOTT, 90, actress
“The Searchers”
“Auntie Mame”
“Petulia”
JAN SHEPARD, 96, actress
“King Creole”
“Attack of the Giant Leeches”
“Burden of Truth”
MASAHIRO SHINODA, 94, writer, director
“Double Suicide"
“Clouds At Sunset”
“Punishment Island”
MARK SNOW, 78, composer
“Wild Grass”
“The Hamlet Adventure”
“Disturbing Behavior”
SCOTT SPIEGEL, 67, actor
“The Rookie”
“Skinned Alive”
“The Dead Next Door”
ENZO STAIOLA, 85, actor
“Bicycle Thieves”
“The White Line”
“The Barefoot Contessa”
TERENCE STAMP, 87, actor
“The Limey”
 “Wall Street”
“My Wife Is an Actress”
LYNNE MARIE STEWART, 78, actress
“Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”
“American Graffiti”
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
TOM STOPPARD, 88, writer
“Shakespeare In Love”
“Brazil”
“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead”
CHARLES STROUSE, 96, composer
“Annie”
“The Night They Raided Minsky’s”
“Bonnie and Clyde”
DREW STRUZAN, 78, poster artist
“Blade Runner”
“Raiders of the Lost Ark"
 “Robin and Marian”
JEANNOT SZWARC, 87, director
“Supergirl”
“Jaws 2”
“Somewhere In Time”
NEIL SUMMERS, 81, actor, stunts
“Midnight Run”
“Wild At Heart”
“Mars Atttacks!”
LORETTA SWIT, 87, actress
“Beer”
“S.O.B.”
“Race With the Devil”
LEE TAMAHORI, 75, director
“Mulholland Falls”
“Once Were Warriors”
“Die Another Day”
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG, 39, actress
“Harriet the Spy”
“Inspector Gadget”
“Black Christmas”
BOB UECKER, 90, actor, broadcaster
“Major League”
“Fatal Instinct”
“Major League II”
SHOJI UEDA, 87, cinematographer
“Ran”
“Dreams”
“Rhapsody In August”
RENEE VICTOR, 86, actress
“In Other Words”
“A Night In Old Mexico"
 “Welcome To Our World”
MARLENE WARFIELD, 83, actress
“Network”
“The Great White Hope
 “Across 110th Street”
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER, 54, actor
“Drop Zone”
“A Fare To Remember”
“The List”
GEORGE WENDT, 76, actor
“Forever Young”
“Space Truckers”
“Lakeboat”
ISIAH WHITLOCK JR., 71, actor
“Cedar Rapids”
“Pete’s Dragon"
 “The Old Man and the Gun”
BILLY WILLIAMS, 95, cinematographer
“Gandhi”
“The Wind and the Lion”
“Women In Love”
HARRIS YULIN, 87, actor
“Cradle Will Rock”
“Night Moves”
“Doc”
 
“I like things that leave some room to dream.”
David Lynch