BR: What? / Che? (1974)
Italian producer Carlo Ponti (Doctor Zhivago) bankrolled the appropriately titled What? / Che? a sex comedy crafted by Roman Polanski and longtime co-writer Gerald Brach…
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BR: Romeo is Bleeding (1993)
When Premiere magazine was in its finest form, printing a balance of ephemera, history, current interviews, portraits, and exposes, they also did an occasional tally of the ’10 best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood,’ updating the status of each as to whether a work had just been greenlit, went into turnaround…
BR: Black Widow (1987)
Bob Rafelson’s 1981 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice can’t be credited with launching a resurgence of noir in the 1980s (the honors to some degree probably belong to Lawrence Kasdan’s competing, sweaty 1981 neo-noir classic Body Heat), Rafelson did revisit the genre a couple of times…
DVD: Healey’s Hideaway (2014)
Jeff Healey was Canada’s gift to the blues, and his passing at 41 from lung cancer was a huge loss to the Canadian music scene, especially since the child prodigy would’ve matured into an even greater musician…
BR: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Riding on the success of the vicious crime thriller One False Move (1992), Carl Franklin’s follow-up film was the first of a proposed series of films based on Walter Moseley’s former machinist-turned detective Easy Rollins…
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