Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Long Goodbye’
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Altman, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Wes Anderson, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Night Moves, Roger Ebert, The Long Goodbye, Point Blank, Days of Heaven, Annie Hall, John Boorman, Gene Hackman, Éric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Melanie Griffith, The Conversation, William Wyler, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The New Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ross Macdonald, Francis Ford Coppola on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Guest Post, by Ted Pelton: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Billie Holliday, Edie Parker Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, Jack Kerouac, Lady Sings the Blues, Malcolm & Jack, Malcolm X, Raymond Chandler, ted pelton, The Long Goodbye on May 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“I had a drunk on like seven Swedes.” – Raymond Chandler