I watched Cecil B. Demented once around the time that it came out, and have since thought of it as my least favorite John Waters movie. The part of the film that stuck with was Cecil’s crew introducing themselves one by one to the big Hollywood star they have kidnapped to be in their underground [...]
After watching Citizen Kane again for the 50th time or so yesterday, I thought it was time to finally get around to seeing RKO 281, the dramatization of the creation of Kane, especially the battle over the film between its creator, 24-year-old Orson Welles, and its thinly veiled subject, 78-year-old William Randolph Hearst. I have [...]
I’ve been continuing to indulge my obsession with Jeremy Irons’ voice by listening to his unabridged narration of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita in 15-minute bursts during my morning commute. This of course made me want to see Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of the book staring Irons, but I waited until I was finished with the audio book [...]
Actor: Melanie Griffith
Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
I watched Cecil B. Demented once around the time that it came out, and have since thought of it as my least favorite John Waters movie. The part of the film that stuck with was Cecil’s crew introducing themselves one by one to the big Hollywood star they have kidnapped to be in their underground [...]
RKO 281 (1999)
After watching Citizen Kane again for the 50th time or so yesterday, I thought it was time to finally get around to seeing RKO 281, the dramatization of the creation of Kane, especially the battle over the film between its creator, 24-year-old Orson Welles, and its thinly veiled subject, 78-year-old William Randolph Hearst. I have [...]
Lolita (1997)
I’ve been continuing to indulge my obsession with Jeremy Irons’ voice by listening to his unabridged narration of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita in 15-minute bursts during my morning commute. This of course made me want to see Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of the book staring Irons, but I waited until I was finished with the audio book [...]