A PERFECT MARRIAGE
In many ways the “marriage” of Hume Cronyn and John Randolph in director Joe Manciewicz’s penultimate movie “There Was a Crooked Man” is Hollywood‘s first portrayal of a happy and well-adjusted gay couple.
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Category: Under Appreciated
Diary of a Mad Housewife: The cinema of Eleanor and Frank Perry
From 1968 to 1970, Frank Perry directed three great movies each emblematic of it’s time and place. And all three started life as adapted screenplays that captured the spirit of their source material with extraordinary economy and grace. The three films are “The Swimmer” (1968), “Last Summer” (1969) and “Diary of a Mad Housewife” (1970). All three screenplays were written by Perry’s then wife, the enormously gifted Eleanor Perry.
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A Short Appreciation of Jean Seberg.
Unlike their American counterparts, the French critics, among whom the brightest stars of the New Wave, in particular Truffaut and Goddard, were full of praise for the film, singling out Seberg with her haunting eyes and iconic boyish haircut.
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