wilder
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Spielberg noted how many of his favorite filmmakers, including David Lean and Billy Wilder and more recent examples such as Paul Thomas Anderson and Christopher Nolan, are always making films that feel different from what they have done before.
From Los Angeles Times
It was funny when Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder did this in “Young Frankenstein” but here serves as a painful reminder that Ms. Gyllenhaal, whose only previous directorial effort was the sad 2021 Netflix drama “The Lost Daughter,” is unlikely ever to be listed alongside Mel Brooks among the comedy greats.
Intuition will be your guide — the wilder, the better.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’m not speaking for Mary Shelley, but there must have been some other, naughtier, wilder, more dangerous things that Mary Shelley wanted to say that weren’t said in ‘Frankenstein.’
From Los Angeles Times
Richard’s attempt to stage his mother’s funeral, with her coffin being lowered from the ceiling, while “Also sprach Zarathustra” plays and smoke billows toward the audience, fortunately comes to naught; but he announces at the ceremony that he’ll direct a production of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play “Our Town” at the theater, to “restore the soul of this town.”
From Los Angeles Times
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