In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic ...
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‘The Wild Bunch’: Sam Peckinpah’s blood-gushing epic neo-Western
A look at the 1969 classic ahead of its showing at UW Cinematheque March 8 as part of the series “Sam Peckinpah Centennial.” ...
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‘Being Maria’ charts a bisexual actress’ traumatic encounter with Marlon Brando
Actors don’t choose, roles choose actors,” says one character in Jessica Palud’s “Being Maria.” A biopic of bisexual actor ...
What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson, looks at how Didion both shaped and was shaped by the movies.
‘The Sound of Music’ turns 60: Hit movie saved Fox — but drunken star Christopher Plummer hated it
“Fox lost $15 million on actual film production, a then astronomical sum that forced the company to sell both stock and real ...
Our favorite Gene Hackman performances
Gene Hackman, who has died at 95, was a stunner in great movies and the best thing in many bad ones — a rumpled, roiling, ...
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In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
Wilkinson follows Didion’s childhood growing up with John Wayne movies to her early career in New York writing for Vogue, her stint as a film critic who once had a column with Pauline Kael ...
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The Most Important Cyberpunk Movie Ever Is Back On Netflix
These days, pointing out that Blade Runner is good is like pointing out that ice cream is tasty; most people have heard by ...
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Gene Hackman, found dead at 95, was one of Hollywood’s most respected actors
Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and ...
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‘The Sound of Music’ turns 60: Hit movie saved Fox — but drunken star Christopher Plummer hated it
Pauline Kael called the wholesome, Austria-set musical starring Julie Andrews a “sugar-coated lie” in a pan review that is said to have gotten her fired from McCall magazine. The New York ...
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What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
Her distaste for more fluidly inclined filmmakers like Shirley Clarke and John Cassavetes, her quarrels with the critic Pauline Kael (who may not have grasped the business mechanics of Hollywood ...