A question prompted by repeated viewings of One Battle After Another . . . What do I think are the Greatest Movies Ever Made? [as of April 2026 . . . subject to change 🙂 ] Robert Altman’s masterpiece The Player has movie exec Griffin Mills’ list the elements that make a successful film: “Suspense, […]
Greatest Movies Ever Made — Brian’s Version
April 12th, 2026 · No Comments · Movies
Tags: Alan Pakula·Alfred Hitchcock·Arthur Miller·Christopher Guest·Damien Chazelle·David Fincher·David Mamet·George Roy Hill·James Mangold·John Huston·Martin Scorsese·Michael Wadleigh·Mike Nichols·Norman Jewison·Paul Thomas Anderson·Quentin Tarantino·Rian Johnson·Rob Reiner·Robert Altman·Robert Zemeckis·Steven Soderbergh·Tony Scott
The Play’s The Thing
April 30th, 2021 · 4 Comments · New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
The Play’s The Thing 113 different Playbills that survived. An approximate history of my life in theater audiences . . . Some of the highlights . . . which you can see the Playbills of in chronological order starting at the top . . . Mousetrap — London — 1972 — the longest running play […]
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