The Last Stop in Yuma County is a cool little movie, debut (written & directed & edited by Francis Galluppi), film noir, B style, happening in the early 70's (my guess), in a Yuma desert station with no gas. The idea of fatality reigns.
Cast: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue Faizon Love, Gene Jones and baddie Richard Brake
Blood Simple, Bad Times at El Royale
& now I heard about LaRoy, Texas, also 2023.
Great title song, Love is Blue the 1968 Paul Mauriat version, sounds like a Morricone song and I realised I knew it from childhood from a Richard Clayderman record (!)
World Event du jour (16 mai 2024) -the world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS (over 40 years in the making, and finally produced on his own dime-and 120 million $ of it !!!, sold half of his vineyards they say), at the 77th Festival de Cannes. Coppola is 85 now and won double time -deux fois la Palme d'Or, for The Conversation in 1974 and for Apocalypse Now in 1979 (ex aqueo with Schlondorff's Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum). Now he's nominated for a Third Palme (third time's a charm syndrome, well, Merde! :)
Great teaser for the film (or First Look clip) shattered the internet views 12 days ago, and then the trailer is on now, 2 days before the Cannes screening. French distributor is Le Pacte and I know for fact il will be distributed in Thaeters in Romania. Interesting enough, no US distributor yet, but surely this will be of passé composé demain ;) Update-yes, sold to Lionsgate immediately !
Cannes TV du 1er rang just showed the end of the screening, the applause and the ending photo call of Coppola and his family & Team. Adam Driver, the lead of the film, Talia Shire (Francis' sister), Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight (85 as well !!!) and a bearded almost unrecognizable Shia LaBeuf in Palais Lumiere and on the Red Carpet (here's the Red Carpet before the seance).
Here are the whole 22 mins of this Historical Event (yep, wish i was there...)
Luca Guadagnino's tennis threesome Challengers starring Zendaya (les Dunes), Josh O'Connor (La Chimera) & Mike Feist (Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story)
Great score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, my main reason to see this flick. 2nd collaboartion of TR & AR with Sicilian director after 2022's Bones and All (see in my top of the year here, on soundtracks too).
Absolutely overlong (130 mins !!!), over stylish, slick editing and sound design.
...this is no Jules and Jim, more like Punch & Judy ;)
