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TOY STORY
Released 30 years ago today.
Concept art by Ralph Eggleston.
Netflix has Clint Bentley’s TRAIN DREAMS, a gorgeous new film starring an extraordinary Joel Edgerton, based on a novella by the late Denis Johnson. It’s sort of a tone poem to early America, to trees and trains and to grief. Watch it at night with the lights low and your phone put away.
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Due June 2, a new novel by Ann Patchett. a.co/d/2Ls0M5S
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Barbra Streisand’s YENTL Released 42 years ago today. I had a line party for 20 at the Cinerama Dome. I was dressed as a yeshiva boy (of course) and had a life-size record store standup of the “Superman” cover nearby. Barbra show tunes on the ghetto blaster. A grand night, a great film.
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12 Years Ago Today:
Governors Ball - Jean Hersholdt Humanitarian Award winner Angelina Jolie and her lifelong friend Gena Rowands, who presented the award to her (and Honorary Oscar honoree Steve Martin passing by).
One of the greats. Her Mary Tyrone must have really been something. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
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Sheila Benson’s review of ANNA (1987) starring Sally Kirkland. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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10 Years Ago Today:
Gena Rowlands and her husband Robert Forrest arrive at the Governor's Ball, where Gena will receive her Honorary Oscar.
Kelly Reichardt’s marvelous 1970s era art heist film, THE MASTERMIND, starring Josh O’ Connor, is leaving theaters but check your local listings. You may only spot one showing, in the middle of your work day. Leave work early. That’s always good for the soul. So is this movie.
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The Barbra Streisand autobiography came out two years ago today. It’s crazy long but if you go between the print book and her Audible version, it’s a blast. She ad libs a bit on the Audible—a “Damn” at the end of the Anthony Newley story—and as with the singing voice, each heard breath becomes art.
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Lee Grant celebrating her 100th birthday alongside documentary film producer Sheila Nevins. (Photo via Nevins’ IG)
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Robert Redford Sunday TCM
02.11.2025 02:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It’s the day to hope that Vincent Price had a good royalties deal for “Thriller”. 🎃
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Prime has director David Jacobson’s DAHMER (2002), which for me is one of the great films and much neglected. A fearless Jeremy Renner is extraordinary and as Dahmer’s father, the great Bruce Davidson heartbreaking. Here’s my original review. www.laweekly.com/hungry-heart/
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Photo of Philip Kaufman wearing a white shirt and looking to the left, standing behind a camera.
“Intrepid doesn’t even begin to describe a director who, among his many considerable achievements, gave Indiana Jones his first assignment and inspired the NC-17 rating,” said LAFCA President Robert Abele. “A criminally underappreciated director, Philip Kaufman could never be pigeonholed, from his early days absorbing the independent spirit of homegrown DIY-ers and the European New Wave, to his cool, vivid command of genre in the ’70s, followed by a handful of uncompromising historical epics, including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, that belied anybody’s notion that American filmmakers couldn’t be versatile, intelligent and entertaining about big ideas. The L.A. Film Critics Association is immensely proud to be honoring this dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast.”
Our 2026 Career Achievement Award recipient is Philip Kaufman
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Happy Birthday, DUMBO! 84 today.
Concept Art by Disney Studio Artist
Free dog and cat vaccines Los Angeles this Saturday
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10 years ago—best bus campaign ever. I followed it around Hollywood at 10 o’clock in the morning, delighted. THE PEANUTS MOVIE
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From Leonard Bernstein’s 1976 musical, “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” which tracks the history of the White House, @barbrastreisand sings “Take Care of This House.” Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. youtu.be/hGLXYz6fl1A
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Perhaps because the Charlie Brown special has been streaming for free all weekend on Apple TV, “The Great Pumpkin Waltz” by Vince Guaraldi is the Number One song on iTunes tonight. 🎃
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A visit to Shel Silverstein’s Archives www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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from “The Underworld,” a 2017 novel by Kevin Canty
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Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) is on TCM. Here is Pauline Kael’s long, ever remarkable review.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...
Visiting Pauline Kael at her home, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, August 1998
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Giving LA Times film critic Sheila Benson a lift, early 1990s.
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My Snoopy and PEANUTS room.
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