JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBS57UT-Kx4MRV9iGVHvAEWRmAespguMpXgTbXVdZgg7stjQ0r96_ROhGF4aqE8gxLYhO0lra09lKBXzVaNakUdInoAuJuOg2-tLbPXlpm3yjY39qhW5zlQaGl-8ys05KZxR5509rkhkzybQMXSelKEhMwIeRJwAlYZPQ5QCHVkTLbLWmW3ynYU5hboc3/s2048/AVvXsEjGdJGvt5d_ROQYPZ7l5NnIHrXhi5PMDTs31Svth1LOqHHmhV_Y70T4kAZ8dFpLQPtK8UECJT19Y1zKu8Xv760e_gQz7hh31cQGwy5Jh6A-wylbe8hgCBnIZF22F2l-nc6dfn7kDTpYkh_XFFFO0BMjQUE8FxCHJl39PTOZerrOi7psWsejPojTkFJ90A=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBS57UT-Kx4MRV9iGVHvAEWRmAespguMpXgTbXVdZgg7stjQ0r96_ROhGF4aqE8gxLYhO0lra09lKBXzVaNakUdInoAuJuOg2-tLbPXlpm3yjY39qhW5zlQaGl-8ys05KZxR5509rkhkzybQMXSelKEhMwIeRJwAlYZPQ5QCHVkTLbLWmW3ynYU5hboc3/s16000/AVvXsEjGdJGvt5d_ROQYPZ7l5NnIHrXhi5PMDTs31Svth1LOqHHmhV_Y70T4kAZ8dFpLQPtK8UECJT19Y1zKu8Xv760e_gQz7hh31cQGwy5Jh6A-wylbe8hgCBnIZF22F2l-nc6dfn7kDTpYkh_XFFFO0BMjQUE8FxCHJl39PTOZerrOi7psWsejPojTkFJ90A=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson and Otis Young in THE LAST DETAIL Year: 1973 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What makes THE LAST DETAIL as much comedy as drama is the brilliant use of quick editing, like whenever Navy lifer Jack Nicholson gets too drunk and boisterous, turning a would-be fight into just another time-filling tantrum... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cutting to the next scene before what seems important rolls into the overall road trip journey from New York to Boston on buses and trains, throughout in the snowy East Coast in what's very often regarded (by both critics and fans) as Jack Nicholson's greatest performance...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'

Jack Nicholson and Otis Young in THE LAST DETAIL Year: 1973 Rating: ***** What makes THE LAST DETAIL as much comedy as drama is the brillian...

JACK NICHOLSON DRIVES 'THE PASSENGER' WITH IAN HENDRY

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsawegnt2bdIasdQXVRoYby0CXk1J94aP4_bsIWCgwCe_wlBbmKM6OmrNLK8RUhEsdnky-uYXnbiD02ONpC4fPlJ4ZSWqGZHdlU0_bJW1ocaqkBMmEWYzRm65hV-jLbiGL1NC5JytbSoWdz5Alz6cpjxeYGFZzSw96c-_XqgEnJcJuIVEu-0W0D6dikQ/s1184/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%208.04.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsawegnt2bdIasdQXVRoYby0CXk1J94aP4_bsIWCgwCe_wlBbmKM6OmrNLK8RUhEsdnky-uYXnbiD02ONpC4fPlJ4ZSWqGZHdlU0_bJW1ocaqkBMmEWYzRm65hV-jLbiGL1NC5JytbSoWdz5Alz6cpjxeYGFZzSw96c-_XqgEnJcJuIVEu-0W0D6dikQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-15%20at%208.04.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson in Michelangelo Antonioni's THE PASSENGER Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For a legendary arthouse director inclined to create more character than plot-driven films, BLOW-UP auteur Michelangelo Antonioni's THE PASSENGER is almost entirely plot — heavily built into the main character... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>After Jack Nicholson — as a reporter originally named Locke — takes the identity of a dead arms-dealing doppelganger, he goes from scorched Algerian desert terrain into various European locations tailed by shady businessmen, separated-wife Jenny Runacre and BBC producer-boss Ian Hendry... all clinging to the secret-identity device that, while panning-out in a slow-burn, ambiguous manner, is more primary than parenthetical... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JACK NICHOLSON DRIVES 'THE PASSENGER' WITH IAN HENDRY

Jack Nicholson in Michelangelo Antonioni's THE PASSENGER Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 For a legendary arthouse director inclined to create ...

JACK NICHOLSON IN MONTE HELLMAN'S 'BACK DOOR TO HELL'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlH7RmSOZr52Dm9Ic84RkaIIZsij--Z--VIPogh_XuWkzEiGH0lkCJFBxTwb2btpkxU_PX0hq3im7MzyLKqTEakGQAcM9Ur-_2ydGyWAeGV0UiONrR9oGp0xCagNbllxeoUxKY_HSddnmG3OaKyNw59puXtvHS978omZdHJEU_EUXSWLAlefBBS1FLQ/s1836/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1836" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlH7RmSOZr52Dm9Ic84RkaIIZsij--Z--VIPogh_XuWkzEiGH0lkCJFBxTwb2btpkxU_PX0hq3im7MzyLKqTEakGQAcM9Ur-_2ydGyWAeGV0UiONrR9oGp0xCagNbllxeoUxKY_HSddnmG3OaKyNw59puXtvHS978omZdHJEU_EUXSWLAlefBBS1FLQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BACK DOOR TO HELL Director: Monte Hellman Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following existential Westerns THE SHOOTING and RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, Monte Hellman had initially directed Jack Nicholson in BACK DOOR TO HELL, a low-budget war programmer, actually starring real life crooner Jimmie Rodgers as one of three soldiers, including Nicholson's radio operator Burnett...<br><br>Who, during one conversation with the square-jawed, old school militaristic type, Jersey, played by co-writer John Hackett (he'd sporadically work with Nicholson until 1996), they discusses Rodger's character, Lt. Craig... </p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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JACK NICHOLSON IN MONTE HELLMAN'S 'BACK DOOR TO HELL'

Title: BACK DOOR TO HELL Director: Monte Hellman Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Following existential Westerns THE SHOOTING and RIDE IN THE WHIRL...

JACK NICHOLSON & FAY SPAIN IN MONTE HELLMAN'S 'FLIGHT TO FURY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5YhB8ZzzjA1MSr1rIlRW7TEig_zWchkTOIJFWyiyt_Ke3ngxUQNFV0qwmyJVrRMDHY-fLeLeDKNn-uH3MTxCV99hesR-CPE5xB0-I-6EI0Orx078qblbvQ3IR_TD5AfxjzETG979IPdFYRQUshj7B52CpKIGGno9l4kC0klDGoZ3fx_cfPUere41bYAZ/s1782/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-23%20at%201.01.50%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1782" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5YhB8ZzzjA1MSr1rIlRW7TEig_zWchkTOIJFWyiyt_Ke3ngxUQNFV0qwmyJVrRMDHY-fLeLeDKNn-uH3MTxCV99hesR-CPE5xB0-I-6EI0Orx078qblbvQ3IR_TD5AfxjzETG979IPdFYRQUshj7B52CpKIGGno9l4kC0klDGoZ3fx_cfPUere41bYAZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-23%20at%201.01.50%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson in FLIGHT TO FURY Year: 1964 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the early years — from the late 1950's throughout most of the 1960's — before EASY RIDER turned Jack Nicholson into a charming scoundrel-playing superstar, he frequently collaborated with two low-budget directors: the  multi-genre exploitation icon Roger Corman and b-action auteur Monte Hellman... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But in the case of FLIGHT TO FURY, Hellman, shooting the first of two movies in the Philippines along with the war drama BACK DOOR TO HELL, is following Corman's footsteps...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JACK NICHOLSON & FAY SPAIN IN MONTE HELLMAN'S 'FLIGHT TO FURY'

Jack Nicholson in FLIGHT TO FURY Year: 1964 Rating: ** In the early years — from the late 1950's throughout most of the 1960's — bef...

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADuYZIywSyw6eT4Z89zbHZ5WMsyIaTMTiMtIbfuodxfo1kw84Ym6sl6e9MeLHn9GwFeNiL2JNb7c2z2sYyXVKq2qyU_w-jp-KtgRscENa-HpEC4W6ikFNR19pCo8J9Wr-Mb_iMZF6hDsSC3hSNHSBNBEx0VhfYUt_DoBOMq-TMGiRxZsGKeuJcjg7CbVb/s1985/Screen+Shot+2021-09-26+at+4.57.44+PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1075" data-original-width="1985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADuYZIywSyw6eT4Z89zbHZ5WMsyIaTMTiMtIbfuodxfo1kw84Ym6sl6e9MeLHn9GwFeNiL2JNb7c2z2sYyXVKq2qyU_w-jp-KtgRscENa-HpEC4W6ikFNR19pCo8J9Wr-Mb_iMZF6hDsSC3hSNHSBNBEx0VhfYUt_DoBOMq-TMGiRxZsGKeuJcjg7CbVb/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-09-26+at+4.57.44+PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Maybe directors never really outgrow their film school mindset: And in that, following what would forever remain their collaborative pinnacle, FIVE EASY PIECES director Bob Rafelson gave his close friend Jack Nicholson a break from the stereotype of being the feisty rebel type, here a meek Philly-dwelling radio host of melancholy monologues...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then again maybe he should have played Bruce Dern's conniving con-man older brother Jason Staebler, on the stumbling verge of an Atlantic City land deal with a few obstacles including a potentially dangerous kingpin (Nicholson's three picture co-star, Scatman Crothers) and especially his women...<br></p><span></span>

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JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Rating: *** Maybe directors never really outgrow their film school mi...

MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON GONE CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWZLCrTV8q4714BBVXoYeb6YVgtgFYojhc1VoCDgqWMqy7yMFC3aAaAas-Vkp_5ocYdNRMQILzo5aGsuCJde2Y-N9wPIjsI496qgH_GWwJ7SZWEQtzKmUXVZrwCpO0RtWzP6PGBePTOJPvdNN_RSwyr3_DrZIriKEDjhKYFkgbTBWBSuD9B7BYXNFHRAV/s1600/6.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWZLCrTV8q4714BBVXoYeb6YVgtgFYojhc1VoCDgqWMqy7yMFC3aAaAas-Vkp_5ocYdNRMQILzo5aGsuCJde2Y-N9wPIjsI496qgH_GWwJ7SZWEQtzKmUXVZrwCpO0RtWzP6PGBePTOJPvdNN_RSwyr3_DrZIriKEDjhKYFkgbTBWBSuD9B7BYXNFHRAV/s16000/6.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Thanks to the famous image of a grimacing madman's head through a slashed door, it seems THE SHINING would be nothing more than a fiendish axe-wielding Jack Nicholson running amok. The sinister “Here’s Johnny!” line is as overrated as the TAXI DRIVER “You talkin’ to me?” scene — yet there’s more going on here than a crazy antagonist.<br> <br> It's unfortunate that young horror fans anticipating scare-a-minute thrills are often misled into a deliberately slow-paced cerebral-surreal journey that takes time to encompass the film’s true villain — The Overlook Hotel... <br> </p>

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MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON GONE CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'

Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980 Thanks to the famous image o...

RACING THROUGH EARLY JACK NICHOLSON FOR 'THE WILD RIDE'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGF2UBvTkZGCIz5DpOSf-0Wa0-pIenIB_4CXBH0oomsBHZbyUaFwK_MfL4zNoILF_DfRYIbBzJU3WtLTSXGtMYIe0l4aq7xZHPS4FtwS4tPVzPl_CXi6yZ6IUBRQleNYwPAbM-W_F_lThqzGZIE6a-45qZaT4MXBS7hRmhUDhhDx3ZiuuvJsQ-h00hw/s1548/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-18%20at%2011.30.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGF2UBvTkZGCIz5DpOSf-0Wa0-pIenIB_4CXBH0oomsBHZbyUaFwK_MfL4zNoILF_DfRYIbBzJU3WtLTSXGtMYIe0l4aq7xZHPS4FtwS4tPVzPl_CXi6yZ6IUBRQleNYwPAbM-W_F_lThqzGZIE6a-45qZaT4MXBS7hRmhUDhhDx3ZiuuvJsQ-h00hw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-18%20at%2011.30.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A young Jack Nicholson in THE WILD RIDE Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before the term Speed Kills referred to drugs it was for souped-up fast cars... There weren't any protests under the influence of psychedelia just yet; the 1950's and early 1960's were about hot rods and youth and the latter's misuse was the subject of many films, mostly cautionary tales but this one's a bit more ambiguous and peripheral...<br> <br> THE WILD RIDE stars a young Jack Nicholson as Johnny Varron. He's mostly alone and, with a jovially jazzy soundtrack, every now and then grooving smoothly into a vibe-laden skeletal strut, he's cool to watch driving along a rural road, somewhere in California...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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RACING THROUGH EARLY JACK NICHOLSON FOR 'THE WILD RIDE'

A young Jack Nicholson in THE WILD RIDE Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 Before the term Speed Kills referred to drugs it was for souped-up fast ca...

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s1549/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fransisco, happens upon members of a hopeful rock band consisting of a completely miscast Jack Nicholson and Adam Roarke, looking more like blue collar roughnecks than guitar-slinging hippies, and Max Julien, far more aligned with the drugged-out, passive aesthetic...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Other young future-classic actors include Bruce Dern as Strasberg's troubled brother, the movie's McGuffin that little sister's seeking, fitfully named The Seeker, and Dean Stockwell as a "wise" hippie, reminding Jack, who wants his group to make it big, how shallow money and success are...</p><p><span></span></p>

adam roarke, bruce dern, dean stockwell, drug culture, garry marshall, gary kent, henry jaglom, jack nicholson, max julien, richard rush, sixties, susan strasberg

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fr...

THE MONKEES MIND THEIR MALIGNED BUSINESS THROUGH 'HEAD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXVmljhqzNZ0qhQPY08IuoRJ0PDBin0Q3HLUhIi6Yia4v5RAylJ_Z_WIGsQeSUOVFd_aPhzqnaeDknlGwq2a5l8eHsbk3G6niqMgIwtR-KGRgfMA06Ujmi9U1wCik6-6sr7KLPdqY9x9gjD-AcCD8iSgPqcG2d7JMqVepWIoz0dIHgTlp8Ofp2U8jDJA=s1278" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="1278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXVmljhqzNZ0qhQPY08IuoRJ0PDBin0Q3HLUhIi6Yia4v5RAylJ_Z_WIGsQeSUOVFd_aPhzqnaeDknlGwq2a5l8eHsbk3G6niqMgIwtR-KGRgfMA06Ujmi9U1wCik6-6sr7KLPdqY9x9gjD-AcCD8iSgPqcG2d7JMqVepWIoz0dIHgTlp8Ofp2U8jDJA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Micky Dolenz & Mike Nesmith in artwork more 1980's than 1960's for HEAD Year: 1968 Rates: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No rock group nor any music act in history would take part in a motion picture created primarily to ruin their image; but The Monkees, who were infamously NOT an actual band, had no <i>real</i> image to either ruin or protect...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except their immensely popular and beloved TV show THE MONKEES, in which, after the second season cancellation, producer Bert Schnieder with producer/director Bob Rafelson alongside Rafelson's future FIVE EASY PIECES star/then-writer Jack Nicholson created a big-screen HEAD... </p><p><span></span></p>

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THE MONKEES MIND THEIR MALIGNED BUSINESS THROUGH 'HEAD'

Micky Dolenz & Mike Nesmith in artwork more 1980's than 1960's for HEAD Year: 1968 Rates: ** No rock group nor any music act in ...

JACK NICHOLSON NOIR FOR 'THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxapSZTd2kIJFYYuYpKXJs5WjYFG-NE1SyEp2hfZ5zarGMhT1u6t83Pd9Zo--70LPe_pK0LQtV3tcAeYQXTl7tJFHP8y5U3DIz4rJjF5dPTaT7P4N8-Qg8zFrVnDAS4CjiclJ0cKKnz3wAZlsKnWsS4PZnhMRZCwryi5hep5fYp2AhPJ-VLXzIQYO68Q/s1403/TIGER.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxapSZTd2kIJFYYuYpKXJs5WjYFG-NE1SyEp2hfZ5zarGMhT1u6t83Pd9Zo--70LPe_pK0LQtV3tcAeYQXTl7tJFHP8y5U3DIz4rJjF5dPTaT7P4N8-Qg8zFrVnDAS4CjiclJ0cKKnz3wAZlsKnWsS4PZnhMRZCwryi5hep5fYp2AhPJ-VLXzIQYO68Q/s16000/TIGER.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Passion is better left implied, and the original POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE is far more sensuous, especially as Bob Rafelson's unapologetically R-Rated remake keeps little hidden with Jack Nicholson's otherwise useless drifter <i>making</i> Jessica Lange right there in the steamy kitchen of a diner he winds up employed...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while Nicholson "is no John Garfield," the Noir-friendly CHINATOWN actor doesn't need to be. Paired with tough and tender Jessica Lange, she's not voluptuous like Lana Turner yet is equally beautiful and more realistically earthy/natural given the rural locale — desperately <i>living</i> the part instead of dramatically playing it...<br></p><span></span>

bob rafelson, christopher lloyd, eighties, jack nicholson, jessica lange, john colicos, melodrama, michael lerner, neo noir, remake, romance, thriller

JACK NICHOLSON NOIR FOR 'THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE'

Title: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Passion is better left implied, and the original POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE...

JACK NICHOLSON IN THE FORGOTTEN NEO NOIR 'BLOOD AND WINE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf9s8nO_JB-JbH6E9leH4bqvDUYNIuN6Si3eIZIS4j19Czt4_hLyLqqh-iHBpldPSzQGyaZSuretgztgN5sUgvTler1f1dN3tcFU--Xvt4GyboGE4DUVI1CYZNtdz5O3E3eH7vTbGBEyxyn5gwFwGNrFGM7_XCD9gK_Kp-NT67Ip4z17ItAipZj08ISg=s1499" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="1499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf9s8nO_JB-JbH6E9leH4bqvDUYNIuN6Si3eIZIS4j19Czt4_hLyLqqh-iHBpldPSzQGyaZSuretgztgN5sUgvTler1f1dN3tcFU--Xvt4GyboGE4DUVI1CYZNtdz5O3E3eH7vTbGBEyxyn5gwFwGNrFGM7_XCD9gK_Kp-NT67Ip4z17ItAipZj08ISg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson stars in Bob Rafelson's BLOOD AND WINE Year: 1996 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Some truly inspired casting of two sly human bobcats, one young in this agile twenties and muscular from shark-hunting but what a letdown that doppelgangers Jack Nicholson and Stephen Dorf... the latter the first's step-son... don't play actual blood relatives in Bob Rafelson's forgotten neo noir BLOOD AND WINE set in a humid locale suited for the pulpy, visual page-turning "Cerebral Crime" genre, better known as a Thriller...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Fitfully set in sweat-soaked Florida, on and off the sea although Dorff's Jason isn't the type to get himself that <i>deep</i> into something he's not in complete control of, like a hooked shark, conveniently using a lure attached to a pickup truck, so he's used to opening the usual Noir McGuffin Pandora's Box or some kind of shortcut, always fueled by curiosity...</p><span></span>

bob rafelson, heist, jack nicholson, jennifer lopez, judy davis, michael caine, neo noir, nineties, stephen dorff, thriller

JACK NICHOLSON IN THE FORGOTTEN NEO NOIR 'BLOOD AND WINE'

Jack Nicholson stars in Bob Rafelson's BLOOD AND WINE Year: 1996 Rating: ***1/2 Some truly inspired casting of two sly human bobcats, on...

JACK NICHOLSON & ART GARFUNKEL IN 'CARNAL KNOWLEDGE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21ogS-Y2mRTIXX2v4PnLrSAYqZBdZhXYMfOZwBbiXEEq1wkdSLBCC--kQ3gUSJCbdNwjWeyFiOVH19DbN64sQ-fUU5dKjaO5kWyj4YUqxY9P73P_I2zIfsHyImPIkOTg2grnX2nXRzvQfYzpewd4F6o12tZU4op7cgvE9afYJAIgk8Mx-LuT37rjb0g/s1813/Screen%20Shot%202021-10-01%20at%2011.12.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1813" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21ogS-Y2mRTIXX2v4PnLrSAYqZBdZhXYMfOZwBbiXEEq1wkdSLBCC--kQ3gUSJCbdNwjWeyFiOVH19DbN64sQ-fUU5dKjaO5kWyj4YUqxY9P73P_I2zIfsHyImPIkOTg2grnX2nXRzvQfYzpewd4F6o12tZU4op7cgvE9afYJAIgk8Mx-LuT37rjb0g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-10-01%20at%2011.12.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson with Cynthia O'Neal in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If you can get past a then thirty-four year old Jack Nicholson as a virginal college freshman after having asserted himself a man of the world in previous films, you’ll do alright... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>CARNAL KNOWLEDGE sets itself up as a nostalgic just-came-of-age tale but quickly changes decades and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">storylines</span> later, and, most important, sexual relationships, beginning with University boys Jack and his best friend Sandy — played with a natural screen presence by Art Garfunkel— both dating the same prized Ivy League girl, Candace Bergen… Jack having moved in c<i>arnally </i>without Art's <i>knowledge</i>… </p><p><span></span></p>

ann-margret, art garfunkel, buddy, carol kane, cult, cynthia o'neal, jack nicholson, mike nichols, romance, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON & ART GARFUNKEL IN 'CARNAL KNOWLEDGE'

Jack Nicholson with Cynthia O'Neal in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 If you can get past a then thirty-four year old Jack Ni...

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEM-zVMB89sc_7TmeDqIvqQ9m2rtwmfY1fs53Xy5z9e49AlaH_OrwCgdumwlUDeU1_lkzx1wLIUguhcELz7iswHOAyeI9ni8ASq5HfjTr5K6FIv8mnhbSk0bfJ85ct36haqsew3HuUu7X/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-07-28+at+5.05.59+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1075" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEM-zVMB89sc_7TmeDqIvqQ9m2rtwmfY1fs53Xy5z9e49AlaH_OrwCgdumwlUDeU1_lkzx1wLIUguhcELz7iswHOAyeI9ni8ASq5HfjTr5K6FIv8mnhbSk0bfJ85ct36haqsew3HuUu7X/s400/Screen+Shot+2020-07-28+at+5.05.59+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Who knows, maybe directors never really outgrow their primal, rudimentary, symbolic, allegorical, idealistically pretentious, metaphysical, narcissistic, nostalgic mindset of film school...<br> <br> And in that, following what would forever remain their collaborative pinnacle, FIVE EASY PIECES director Bob Rafelson gave his close friend and future multi-collaborator Jack Nicholson a break from the (possible) stereotype of being the discontented, blunt, feisty rebel type, which he'd proven to be perfectly suited for: Then again, maybe he should have played Bruce Dern's conniving con-man older brother Jason Staebler, on the stumbling verge of an Atlantic City land deal with a few obstacles including a potentially dangerous kingpin and especially his women...<br>

arthouse, bob rafelson, bruce dern, drama, ellen burstyn, indie, jack nicholson, scatman crothers, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Who knows, maybe directors never really outgrow their primal, rudimentary, sym...

JACK NICHOLSON'S COUNTER-CULTURE DIRECTED 'DRIVE, HE SAID'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5tNNruhesUkZ4v-AhKI5-lr1rXfC0w1Cmr6vS05LTfSZKd5Q0gQulEEwmMD1l1HAUNRgHTVW3obK7VSDp7056I0ajVXXNPjYuKa12PRt8nMvH_HafQGTEaJ6SCicGJyFoUEJD1P5b1W8/s1600/drive-june.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="832" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5tNNruhesUkZ4v-AhKI5-lr1rXfC0w1Cmr6vS05LTfSZKd5Q0gQulEEwmMD1l1HAUNRgHTVW3obK7VSDp7056I0ajVXXNPjYuKa12PRt8nMvH_HafQGTEaJ6SCicGJyFoUEJD1P5b1W8/s1600/drive-june.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cult starlet June Fairchild as a cheerleader/hippie student in Jack Nicholson's DRIVE, HE SAID Year: 1971</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> As most people know, Jack Nicholson is a rabid basketball fan. He has his own center seat at the L.A. Lakers games and even before becoming really famous, according to Roman Polanski in a CHINATOWN interview, he furiously demanded to watch a televised game in his trailer...<br> <br> So it may come as no surprise that Jack's directorial debut, a few years before that, would center on a college basketball player drawing crowds during the “turbulent” hippie era.<br>

bruce dern, cindy williams, drug culture, jack nicholson, june fairchild, karen black, michael warren, seventies, william tepper

JACK NICHOLSON'S COUNTER-CULTURE DIRECTED 'DRIVE, HE SAID'

Cult starlet June Fairchild as a cheerleader/hippie student in Jack Nicholson's DRIVE, HE SAID Year: 1971 As most people know, Jack...

KAREN BLACK REFELECTS ORIGINS & 'EASY' COUNTER-CULTURE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mRZIPlx4lISSYZ6YUfagMVq8eJPNlbQfrj-ksdCWf7hWVeulDayFOStIZqk3hEd3f7T-cmpg5LJYKWWeL0VidhyphenhyphenrFv4oZvmRBzlkcD9PhEpl72fzzPamGtNXE4h-Siorh5UlqcFHcUJy/s1600/0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1041" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mRZIPlx4lISSYZ6YUfagMVq8eJPNlbQfrj-ksdCWf7hWVeulDayFOStIZqk3hEd3f7T-cmpg5LJYKWWeL0VidhyphenhyphenrFv4oZvmRBzlkcD9PhEpl72fzzPamGtNXE4h-Siorh5UlqcFHcUJy/s1600/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Black on her career beginnings and sporadic cinema in this first of three parts of our transcribed Interview</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The lovely and talented KAREN BLACK has played both leading ladies and character roles: the bigger parts with lots of character and the smaller ones standing out, quite often stealing the show...<br> <br> And to honor this incredible actress, who died Wednesday, at 74, we'll go back to the beginning as Karen discusses how she got into the business of acting...<br>

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KAREN BLACK REFELECTS ORIGINS & 'EASY' COUNTER-CULTURE

Karen Black on her career beginnings and sporadic cinema in this first of three parts of our transcribed Interview The lovely and talent...

JACK NICHOLSON 'GOIN' SOUTH' W/ DANNY DEVITO 'GOING APE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FjJL7uWdPaQNRJeKyl9RDqMH3rKJ8Z_8zDQlMFnZ9KRkHC84mcrGkJeeA2VOAAKmOvxAumGip1hVCL89V8FfEcllaNR7sNqVmJLSj6uBPjpwHuUqzPHcKhGqGfVblZSDvkJIckPEImK0/s1600/120792.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="521" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FjJL7uWdPaQNRJeKyl9RDqMH3rKJ8Z_8zDQlMFnZ9KRkHC84mcrGkJeeA2VOAAKmOvxAumGip1hVCL89V8FfEcllaNR7sNqVmJLSj6uBPjpwHuUqzPHcKhGqGfVblZSDvkJIckPEImK0/s400/120792.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lobby Card w/ Jack Nicholson & John Belushi YEAR: 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Jack Nicholson channelling Strother Martin while giving his CUCKOO'S NEST fans the eyebrow-raised crazy-fun guy in a Comedy/Western that Jack himself directed about a scruffy outlaw who, to avoid being hanged, marries a classy gal with plenty of heart and even more gold.<br> <br> Quirky ingenue Mary Steenburgen begins her career as June Tate, using new husband, Nicholson's Henry Moon, for menial chores...<br> <br> Putting him through a sort of honeymoon boot camp wherein they eventually, inevitably, predictably fall for each other. "Women love outlaws like little boys love stray puppies," he grins mischievously in this decent time-filler (think of Nicholson's 1976 Western misfire THE MISSOURI BREAKS with a slightly tighter aim) that works until the last half-hour, when Henry's foes return to steal the gold...<br>

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JACK NICHOLSON 'GOIN' SOUTH' W/ DANNY DEVITO 'GOING APE'

Lobby Card w/ Jack Nicholson & John Belushi YEAR: 1978 Jack Nicholson channelling Strother Martin while giving his CUCKOO'S NEST...

TIM BURTON & MICHAEL KEATON ORIGINAL 'BATMAN' REVIEWED

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9V88bdCwKzJYBY6j72YRZXGZpSACmczICRzLNfY-ij6233FblTuWUuD33oBBINsiRqvn140vPwJRv2uwH10GsTbyI4RXq5nndXAQ5pAXMKTTbcoV1qbVlg09CiKAKyTL2zYaByy1NKwev/s1600/56219971_678494642579715_582631048349745152_n%252B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9V88bdCwKzJYBY6j72YRZXGZpSACmczICRzLNfY-ij6233FblTuWUuD33oBBINsiRqvn140vPwJRv2uwH10GsTbyI4RXq5nndXAQ5pAXMKTTbcoV1qbVlg09CiKAKyTL2zYaByy1NKwev/s1600/56219971_678494642579715_582631048349745152_n%252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joker's Commercial Logo from BATMAN Year: 1989</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Since the extremely dark Christopher Nolan DARK KNIGHT trilogy, the original Michael Keaton BATMAN is viewed as too shiny, vapid, dated... for kids and kids only: The campy Adam West television series in theatrical wolves clothing...<br> <br> Which gives former fans of the 1989 Tim Burton vehicle a sort of dizzy amnesia to what was actually a cool-looking, ominous locale for the City of Gotham...<br> <br> A sinister-chrome, matte-painted cross between Film Noir gangland and a spooky children's pop-up book, truly deserving of a vigilante swooping down upon bad guys: Starting out with two kitschy crooks having just robbed a family, reminiscent of our masked hero's own tragic childhood that led Bruce Wayne into the isolated, thankless life of a multimillionaire hybrid of Charles Foster Kane and Charles Bronson.<br>

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TIM BURTON & MICHAEL KEATON ORIGINAL 'BATMAN' REVIEWED

Joker's Commercial Logo from BATMAN Year: 1989 Since the extremely dark Christopher Nolan DARK KNIGHT trilogy, the original Michael ...

GENE NELSON TAKING AIM AT JACK NICHOLSON'S 'THUNDER ISLAND'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8gyEjasHcUEx-GN_bxvwIqDzx2W3kPxGCqHd0Bk7iRPwGR96OuzTO8gm41yv7pd3CC28AdSZdrCiBah56mfED3fyiah4n3nItJMOGpZCy_GrLL9qeFJt-xWErDi0S75oaVxiKKeuKHSI/s1600/b70-7146+2.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="450" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8gyEjasHcUEx-GN_bxvwIqDzx2W3kPxGCqHd0Bk7iRPwGR96OuzTO8gm41yv7pd3CC28AdSZdrCiBah56mfED3fyiah4n3nItJMOGpZCy_GrLL9qeFJt-xWErDi0S75oaVxiKKeuKHSI/s400/b70-7146+2.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Assignment: 1963</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Here's a movie that almost was, and nearly could've been — something pretty good: As one of many low budget programmers by 20th Century Fox in the early sixties, THUNDER ISLAND just happens to be co-written (alongside Don Devilin) by a young starving actor named Jack Nicholson (who doesn't appear), and the set-up is cool enough...<br> <br> On a balmy locale straight out of KEY LARGO style Film Noir, Brian Kelly, best known as the two young boys' dad on TV's FLIPPER, ironically runs a boat charter business, and his ex wife and daughter just happen to show up for a visit while, right inside the only hotel, a hit man's being paid by slick Latin beauty Miriam Colin, whose family suffered the wrath of a former dictator from a Cuba-like country, and he's exiled on a nearby, heavily guarded island... you can call it THUNDER ISLAND although the 11th hour bursts of rushed gunfire would hardly be mistaken for cinematic lightning...<br>

action, art bedard, brian kelly, crime, don devlin, fay spain, gene nelson, jack nicholson, miriam colon, neo noir, sixties

GENE NELSON TAKING AIM AT JACK NICHOLSON'S 'THUNDER ISLAND'

Year of Assignment: 1963 Here's a movie that almost was, and nearly could've been — something pretty good: As one of many low bu...

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82Rd9PxPzIgTr2w4J85GYhPLr6Kz_4ui0kkbHunW7ZMsL19ZyxHRXTkLNCaRqToTxxCAHqcx0SsX2pDy9_kG42Ae3We8v2XPDkE_fbia-ay4oppJsgymUqUpoUosbtWxta8y65pBhqgas/s1600/14600836_202722593490258_8481962365578924908_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82Rd9PxPzIgTr2w4J85GYhPLr6Kz_4ui0kkbHunW7ZMsL19ZyxHRXTkLNCaRqToTxxCAHqcx0SsX2pDy9_kG42Ae3We8v2XPDkE_fbia-ay4oppJsgymUqUpoUosbtWxta8y65pBhqgas/s400/14600836_202722593490258_8481962365578924908_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack and Morgan's perspective of an unreachable mountain YEAR: 2008</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Having ventured back into the classic cinema of Jack Nicholson throughout the years, we'll now embark on a relatively modern journey when the man was reunited with the director of <i>the first</i> of his two middle-aged-era pinnacles, ending with AS GOOD AS IT GETS and starting with A FEW GOOD MEN... <br> Right from the start, in THE BUCKET LIST, the number of times a medical board member gives each other knowing, untrusting glances while Jack's character... a millionaire who owns privatized hospitals... stands, or rather, sits lazily on some kind of hearing against him, this is the sign of director Rob Reiner, begging the audience to agree that Jack is (at first) up to no damn good: What's important is that his Alpha Male tycoon is the polar opposite of the trivia whiz mechanic played by Morgan Freeman...<br>

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JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST

Jack and Morgan's perspective of an unreachable mountain YEAR: 2008 Having ventured back into the classic cinema of Jack Nicholson t...

JACK NICHOLSON & BOB RAFELSON NEO-NOIR TRIPLE FEATURE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1D4yj0v9EEs7B6b9S-lyMfTxeiBUwdwLfCaIp2_UOEOxegn9PEdntAs-SXCYS06ilydnXWEBzYBlCELMCUb2s3qfEBDy3dV3tIMxyGC3zxD28K3LInvzhLoW7D54l3DinqWvvWE7dagLv/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-03-11+at+3.45.44+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1600" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1D4yj0v9EEs7B6b9S-lyMfTxeiBUwdwLfCaIp2_UOEOxegn9PEdntAs-SXCYS06ilydnXWEBzYBlCELMCUb2s3qfEBDy3dV3tIMxyGC3zxD28K3LInvzhLoW7D54l3DinqWvvWE7dagLv/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-03-11+at+3.45.44+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson unhitches The Postman Always Rings Twice</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In the late 60's, Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rarelson, when both were relatively unknown, a cinematic partnership was born, and of their five total we'll center on three Neo Noir vehicles, one per decade, ending in the later-1990's and starting in the early-1970's...<br> <br> <u>THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS</u>: Who knows, maybe directors never really outgrow their primal, rudimentary, symbolic, allegorical, idealistically pretentious, metaphysical, narcissistic, nostalgic mindset of film school: And in that, following what would forever remain their collaborative pinnacle, FIVE EASY PIECES director Bob Rafelson gave his close friend and future multi-collaborator Jack Nicholson a break from the (possible) stereotype of being the discontented, blunt, feisty rebel type, which he's proven... even in early Roger Corman vehicles and Richard Rush biker flicks... which he was perfectly suited for...<br>

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JACK NICHOLSON & BOB RAFELSON NEO-NOIR TRIPLE FEATURE

Jack Nicholson unhitches The Postman Always Rings Twice In the late 60's, Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rarelson, when both were r...