Film Comment

Here’s the Deal

A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 Years in Hollywood By Irwin Winkler, Abrams Press, $26

MAXINE GORDON’S SOPHISTICATED GIANT, a 201 8 biography of her husb and, the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon, contains quite a few stories about the making of , the Ber trand Tavernier film in which Dexter played a self-destructive

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Film Comment

Film Comment6 min read
Declaration of Independence
An Unmarried Woman Paul Mazursky, USA, 1978; The Criterion Collection THERE’S A MOMENT EARLY IN PAUL MAZURSKY’S An Unmarried Women when Erica (Jill Clayburgh) and her gal pals are tippling and pondering 8 x 10 glossies of Bette Davis and Katharine He
Film Comment7 min read
Crimes Against Humanity
Come and See Elem Klimov, USSR, 1985; The Criterion Collection OVER THE YEARS, ELEM KLIMOV’S MONOLITHIC Come and See (1985) has gradually evolved from muchcoveted cult object (long available in the States as a colorfaded DVD from Kino Video) to ackno
Film Comment11 min read
I Think We’re Alone Now
THERE’S A BIT OF TRIVIA ABOUT THE EXHIBITION of pornographic movies in India that I’ve always found fascinating. Producing and distributing pornography is illegal in the country, and for decades, before sex became streamable on smartphones, short ree

Related Books & Audiobooks