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What Makes One Long Take Legendary, While Another Gets Forgotten? The Devil’s Candy, which chronicles the turbulent production of Brian De Palma’s  The Bonfire of the Vanities. De Palma allowed Salamon to follow him and his crew from pre-production up through the release of the movie. The result was a valuable and entertaining time capsule of Hollywood excesses of the early 1990s. Now that book has become a podcast. Season 2 of the Turner Classic Movies’  The Devil’s Candy. As ho...

Watchmen. Jean Smart has been doing the work for decades. I was a fan back in the Designing Women days. She was incredible in the season of Fargo where she played the mother of a Jewish organized crime family. She is such a good actor with such a wide range. And right now shes everywhere and Im thrilled about it. Give me more Jean Smart — comedy, drama, thriller. I dont care. All of it. Ill take it. YouTube There is an amazing YouTube video in which the comedian Megan Stalter — who has a...

Take Your Ears to the Movies Copy link By Nick Fouriezos Copy link Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. Raise your hand if you’ve watched one of the best picture nominees this year. Two of them? It’s been a tough year for movies and moviegoers. But audio has thrived. So why not scratch your film itch from the comfort of your headphones? Take note of these scintillating stories, from the French inventor whose death birthed Hollywood to the invisible woman behind some of cinema’s greatest films...

The year is dying in the night … Ring out the old, ring in the new / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go … Ring out false pride in place and blood, /the civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right / Ring in the common love of good. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson As the flame of this year gutters and dwindles, and the griefs of the past months, our forced solitude, make us all a bit more fragile, what a solace to walk or drive through to...