Blog – MM Remembers
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MM Remembers: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron, the director behind rom-com classics You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle (both of which she also wrote), passed away yesterday in her...
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MM Remembers: Paul Newman
Back somewhere in 1975, just before Paul Newman started filming The Drowning Pool in and around my hometown of New Orleans, he joined a few...
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Nothing Is Private for Towelhead
America’s largest civil liberties group, CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), is urging Warner Bros. executives to re-title Alan Ball’s upcoming film Towelhead. The film,...
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Nothing Is Private for Towelhead
America’s largest civil liberties group, CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), is urging Warner Bros. executives to re-title Alan Ball’s upcoming film Towelhead. The film,...
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MM Remembers: Stan Winston (1946-2008)
His creations are legendary. Just to name a few…The Terminator, the Jurassic Park dinosaurs, Edward Scissorhands, Aliens, The Monster Squad, Predator and, most recently, Iron...
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MM Remembers: Sydney Pollack (1934 – 2008)
This is my favorite Sydney Pollack memory: It’s December 1982 in New York, during a press junket for Tootsie. Pollack approaches the roundtable of critics...
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Roy Scheider: 1932 - 2008
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat!” Delivering that single, splendidly spot-on line of dialogue—in Jaws, of course—was more than enough to eternally ensure for Roy...
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Roy Scheider: 1932 – 2008
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat!” Delivering that single, splendidly spot-on line of dialogue—in Jaws, of course—was more than enough to eternally ensure for Roy...
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Crossing the Line: Delbert Mann: Jan. 30, 1920 – Nov. 11, 2007
In parts of Europe if you create just one great work of art you’re forever after known as a “maestro,” a genius, a rock star…...
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MM Remembers: Joel Siegel (1943 - 2007)
Being a movie critic wasn’t always as easy as starting a blog and telling all your friends about it. Now any and everyone seems to...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...