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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 10:00AM 
Happy International Coffee Day! How do you take yours? If you need inspiration, here's a gallery after the jump of beautiful stars having a cup of joe...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 8:00AM 12 random things that happened on this day, September 29th, in showbiz history...
Natalie Wood gave birth to her first child on this day in 1970
1940 Strike Up the Band starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland is a hit in its opening weekend. One of my favorite old review blurbs ever is for Judy Garland calling her "oomphy". Hee.
1948 Hamlet has its american premiere in New York City. 176 days later it wins 4 Oscars: Picture, Actor, Art Direction... and Costume Design...
Monday, September 28, 2020 at 3:00PM by Jason Adams
Picture it: the year is 1970 and the director Orson Welles has just recently begun filming his experimental film The Other Side of the Wind, the production of which would ultimately outlast the director himself (Welles died in '85) and many of the people he put in front of his camera. (Wind was finally released by Netflix in 2018 after nearly 50 years of tinkering.) One such person Welles filmed was actor-turned-director Dennis Hopper, who was fresh off his counter-culture sensation Easy Rider. Strange bedfellows, these two, but they sat down for over two hours of filmed and oft-antagonistic conversation, and now producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski, who finally got Wind across the finish line, have gifted us with Hopper/Welles, the fly-on-the-wall footage of that moment screening at NYFF. It's something!
Full disclosure: I went in to Hopper/Welles expecting to find Welles a bit of a boor and Hopper a pip. Fuller disclosure: I came out with quite the opposite...
Dennis Hopper, NYFF, Orson Welles, documentaries Monday, September 28, 2020 at 9:00AM 9 random things that happened on this day, September 28th, in showbiz history:
1935 Comic actor Stan Laurel marries his second wife Virginia Ruth Rogers who will also become his fourth wife. Old Hollywood stars sure did get married and divorced and remarried a lot! The recent underseen biopic Stan & Ollie (2018) looked at Laurel & Hardy's final years after the heyday of their fame, with Steven Coogan as Stan Laurel and Nina Arianda giving yet another great supporting performance as Laurel's fifth and final wife Ida. When is Nina Arianda going to get her due in Hollywood?
1945 Seventy-five years ago today, noir classic Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford opened, reviving her career and winning her the Oscar. (The movie was nominated for 5 additional Oscars including Best Picture). It's a must-see.
Gregg Toland, Martin & Lewis, and Olivia Newton-John after the jump...
Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 10:30PM with Nathaniel R & Murtada Elfadl
We're back for weekly podcasting now as the season revs up.
Index (58 minutes)
00:01 Virtual festivals pros & cons and blurry lines between film and TV
13:00 NYFF - Frances McDormand in Chloe Zhao's Nomadland
27:00 Ivory Coast's Night of Kings and the documentary Time
40:22 Sean Durkin's The Nest starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon
49:00 Boys in the Band in brief
56:00 Wrap up: French Exit is soon! Eeeeeee
Related Reading:
• Nathaniel's Review of Night of Kings
• All posts on Nomadland
• Murtada's Review of Boys in the Band
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you?
