ME & JOHN CARRADINE 1979

On the set of THE NESTING, 1979. Gloria Graham's last movie. I wish I had a photo with her too. John told me he thought I was going to be a big star. Oh well. He was near the end of his incredible career and life too (notice the horrible arthritis in his hand.) It was an honor to work with both of them.

PS TO LAST POST

NUFF SAID

"VANILLA ISIS"

I don't know is she originated it, but my friend Lisa Cherry used it in a Facebook comment thread and it's even better than "Y'all Queda"... 

(PS: in case you don't know, this is in reference to the "white" domestic terrorists who've taken over a federal building in Oregon in a traitorous act that would have them all dead or in prison yesterday if they weren't "white")

JOY

Lots of people I like and often love to see acting on screen in JOY, and the director has a history of well made flicks, so I'll blame the writing for why JOY was a disappointment.

Some great scenes, and a delight to watch Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen do entertaining characters, and Jennifer Lawrence is always wonderful to watch—I could add others, like Bradley Cooper—but their characterizations, as engaging as they were at times, seemed almost random, like little skits forced into a connection with a plotless scattershot story.

So, I'd wait and see it on cable.

A SOME OF US PRESS RETROSPECTIVE ONLINE WORTH CHECKING OUT

Here.

FAVORITE MOVIES OF 2015 (AMONG THOSE I SAW)

1. THE BIG SHORT
2. BROOKLYN
3. SPOTLIGHT
4. THE DANISH GIRL
5. LOVE & MERCY
6. SUFFRAGETTE
7. FREEHELD
8. IRRATIONAL MAN
9. EXPERIMENTER
10. BRIDGE OF SPIES

favorite foreign flicks of 2015 I saw:

JIMMY'S HALL (Ireland, made in 2014 but came out in the USA in '15)
3 HEARTS (France, as 3 COEURS)

favorite documentaries of 2015 I saw:

AMY
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