The deep problem William Friedkin had with modern Hollywood
“I don’t even watch it. I can’t watch that stuff.”
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 04/2024
The enlightenment of Phil Connors: the Buddhist roots of Bill Murray’s ‘Groundhog Day’
The cynical weatherman goes on a journey of self-discovery.
Jane Fonda names “the only smart career” move she ever made
“They’ll rediscover Fonda, and that’s what happened.”
The two movies Oliver Stone deems failures: “I’m not a natural born sadist”
An experience he vowed never to replicate.
Going out in a blaze of glory: What John Wayne’s final shot says about his career
A fitting swansong for an icon.
Dangerous opposites: why Lupe Vélez fired a gun at Gary Cooper
A tempestuous love affair, to say the least.
Filmmakers and new wave musicians: the story of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
An existence as odd as the nomenclature.
The performance that inspired Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator
“Yul Brynner plays a machine that malfunctions.”
Abel Gance: the director who tricked the military into making an anti-war movie
A risky gambit that paid off.
The forgotten thriller that ended in a stalking charge and a “jihad of terror”
The aftermath earned a lot more headlines.
The rejected score for Stanley Kubrick movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
The composer was understandably miffed.