Posts tagged Michael Caine
Shards from the Fractured Mirror: Jolson Rides Again, The Legend of Lylah Claire, Once in a Lifetime, The Pretenders, Shrink, Sweet Liberty, With Friends Like These and Zeroville

This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.

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Stanley Donen's Career Got Off to A Roaring Start With On the Town and Ended Bleakly With the Cinematic Sex Crime Blame It on Rio

It’s not unusual for a great filmmaker’s debut to be great and their last film an abomination, but they’re rarely as inconceivably god-awful as Singing in the Rain director Stanley Donen’s final film, 1984’s Blame it on Rio.

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