Kim Morgan

New look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth.

(Source: @VanityFair | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-monster-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro-oscar-isaac)

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

This August the New Bev pays tribute to Michael Madsen and showcases a series of New Hollywood classics, plus spotlights timeless favorites, cult gems, midnights, matinees & more - all projected in glorious 35mm! Let us know what you’re most excited to see!

‘Toronto is the best place to make movies’: Guillermo del Toro presented with key to the city Mayor Olivia Chow presented del Toro with the key in honour of his contributions to the film industry and Toronto’s cultural landscape.

‘Toronto is the best place to make movies’: Guillermo del Toro presented with key to the city

7/19/68: Pretty Poison - D Noel Black/W Lorenzo Semple Jr
w/Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld
More:
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/m...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2019/06...
Sophie Durbin/ @trylon.org: www.perisphere.org/2024/08/16/p...

Coming October 28th from @criterion.bsky.social , @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s masterpiece NIGHTMARE ALLEY in glorious 4KHD is available for preorder here: www.criterion.com/films/35272-...

Excellent news that Guillermo del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY is getting a Criterion Collection release, which will include both color & black-and-white versions. One of my favorites of his. It features a biting, alluring performance by Bradley Cooper. The final shot is brilliant. @criterion.bsky.social

Guillermo del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY Enters The Criterion Collection Guillermo del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY enters the Criterion Collection with a new 4K UHD release, which includes the black-and-white extended director’s cut of the Academy Award-nominated neo-noir.

Guillermo del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY enters the Criterion Collection with a new 4K UHD release, which includes the black-and-white extended director’s cut of the Academy Award-nominated neo-noir.

Coming soon to Criterion - release date October 28! www.criterion.com/films/35272-...

7/13/99: Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece, Eyes Wide Shut
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/2019/07/05/n...
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@janetmaslin.bsky.social (who nailed it then): www.nytimes.com/1999/07/16/m...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2019/04...
@thobbsjourno.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

GASLIGHT (1944) screens next Tuesday & Wednesday, July 15th & 16th, on a 35mm double bill with Clouzot's DIABOLIQUE (1955).

BOTD Mr. Warren. Oates. MCCT5: 5)Stripes 4)Wild Bunch 3)The Shooting 2)2Two Lane Blacktop 1)Hired Hand
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@yronlyhope.bsky.social: theplaylist.net/essentials-6...
@petersob13.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/bad...

Thanks so much, Farran! As Gorcey would say, "I depreciate it!"

I do have this book and treasure it!

Kim Morgan on Heaven Can Wait Film historian Kim Morgan writes about Warren Beatty & Buck Henry's Heaven Can Wait.

6/28/78: Heaven Can Wait
D Warren Beatty/Buck Henry; W Elaine May/WB
w/Julie Christie, James Mason, Warden/Grodin/Cannon
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@msorrento.bsky.social: filmint.nu/elaine-may-w...
Rog: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/heav...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social / @newbeverly.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2017/08...

Joan Crawford, in full tarted-up costume and makeup as Sadie Thompson in RAIN, peers through a beaded curtain in this publicity still (b&w)

You'll be seeing less of me through the end of June, unless you're at #IlCinemaRitrovato in Bologna—in which case, say hi! On June 23 at 11:15 am at the Cinema Jolly, I'll be introducing a dazzling restoration of RAIN (Lewis Milestone, 1932). Flopped on release, ready to be rediscovered. Ciao!

Billy Wilder was born 119 years ago today! Listen to our episode of The Old Man is Still Alive on his work in the 60s and 70s, and come see KISS ME, STUPID on Tuesday if you're in LA! www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/bil...

Marcello (dark shirt, white pants) is kneeling on the beach, with his hands held palms up in a classically Italian gesture of resignation. A cigarette is going in his right hand. Fellini, in a white shirt, dark tie and dark pants, is also kneeling and appears to be showing his star how to do the palms-up shrug. Only Fellini's gesture is even more "what can you do?" (b&w)

Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini rehearsing during the filming of LA DOLCE VITA — a mood this Friday if ever there was one.

"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan

RIP Brian Wilson

Fuck the cowbell, I need more theremin.

RIP Brian Wilson

grainy photograph - a wide shot and side view of Wilson with shaggy hair in a white t-shirt sitting in church pews. a giant white light from the ceiling above surrounds him

Brian Wilson c. 1986, when the Beach Boys recorded the music video for California Dreamin' in this church

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A screengrab from Goodfellas: the exterior of a diner, at night, captioned June 11th, 1970 Queens, New York.

For those who celebrate.

Rest in Peace, Sly Stone
photo by Richard Avedon

Kim Morgan is one of the best writers you will ever read on Marilyn’s craft, and these three perfs are so essential to understanding her as an artist, a businesswoman, and a human being…Do yourself a favor and read this.

HBD to one of the tutelary deities of our household

Thank you, lovely Jen!

Thank you beautiful! !💗

The Misfits is bloody fire. Drop what you're doing, and watch the Misfits.

Marilyn Monroe lounges by the pool, photographed by Harold Lloyd at his massive Greenacres estate in 1953. (Full color)

Happy birthday to the one and only @kimmorgan.bsky.social — don't know what I'd do without her wit, her kindness, and her sound common sense. This year's shot of Kim's birthday twin (guess who, ha!) is a honey. Have a beautiful day, my friend!