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Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern & Will Forte—
Nebraska
—10/4/2013
[Dern:] A couple years ago, I got tired of performing. And I just wanted to be human beings in movies from now on. I want to be real people. I don’t want to perform. I want...an hour and forty-five minutes of moment-to-moment behavior.
Monster (2003)
Down in the Valley (2006)
The Astronaut Farmer (2007)
The perfect film for all those delusional, self-entitled
American Idol
rejects...darn it, this is America, where any man can lead a horse around his ranch in a spacesuit...
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (2010)
Seven important American films from the fabled period when unconventional, independent-minded filmmaking was regarded not only as art but as a marketable asset.
Django Unchained (2012)
There's a case to be made that blood-spattering revenge pictures, no matter how evil the villain, are cultural poison, but if this is what it takes to [get] Don Johnson as a dyed-in-the-wool racist done up as Colonel Sanders, well, so be it.
The Driver (1978)
Hill has remained a steadily stylish presence in the idiom of action cinema. His genres of concern tend to be the Western and the urban crime drama, and the twain meet in neo-noir
The Driver
.
Nebraska (2013)
If you can grin and bear [certain] eye-rolling situations...there's found poetry in
Nebraska
's slow builds of respect and its deeply understated emotional climax: a father and son crossing past each other as they switch places.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
[A] general absence of something to say...Recycles the filmmaker’s own work: the leaner if no meaner dog-eat-dog plotting of
Reservoir Dogs
...and a roster of no-longer-shocking offenses...
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019)
Content finally joined by the movie gods to form—for at last, the moving-picture magpie has lighted on Hollywood as his setting and, in no small part, his subject.
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