Dolittle
A wild whirlwind of a mess, without any coherence, without even a guiding principle.
Viola Spolin
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Alex in Wonderland (1970)
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Mother
Roger Ebert
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Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2019: Blind Date by Veronica Fitzpatrick
An essay on the Elaine May film A New Leaf, as excerpted from the latest issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room.
Coppola looks forward to his own films
There is a kind of shyness, a modesty, about Francis Ford Coppola that is so surprising. Here is the director of "The Godfather," and the epic "Apocalypse Now," and the paranoid psychodrama "The Conversation," and he talks about whether he has the right to put his name above the title. Kids out of film school put their names on their first films, and here he is explaining why his movies are called "Mario Puzo's The Godfather" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "John Grisham's The Rainmaker."
Interview with Alan Arkin
The way it happened that he came to Chicago, Alan Arkin said, was that after he quit singing with the Tarriers he fooled around in New York for awhile, a few acting jobs and a few office jobs that mostly fell through because he couldn't stand working in an office, and then he went out to St. Louis to work with an improvisational group.
