Newmark's Door

An interesting eight minutes.

Alec Baldwin satirizes his famous speech in an SNL skit.

The trailer looks good. Starring Christopher Plummer, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ed Harris. Opens Jan. 24, 2020.

This piece introduced--at least to me--the category of "Dad movies". It's a pretty good fit to my taste:

Timeless examples include James Bond films (especially the Sean Connery era); Indiana Jones; The Godfather; Rocky; Die Hard; Goodfellas; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Saving Private Ryan; Unforgiven; The Martian; Predator; Air Force One; The Fugitive; High Noon; Apollo 13; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World; Space Cowboys; and Heat. 

(Other notable examples: Red, The Right Stuff, and The Fast and Furious.)

Nobody I know of writes dialogue--especially expository dialogue--better. (Even if the video shows he repeats himself somewhat.)

Some of the shots--at a few seconds per--aren't all that dramatic, but they can remind you of the very fine films they were a part of.

A bit of evidence if favor of William Goldman, who once famously wrote that in Hollywood, "Nobody knows anything."

See also "25 Biggest Box Office Bombs".

Article from 1997 New Yorker. I had read a fair amount about the difficulties Coppola had in getting Godfather made, but this piece has some stories I hadn't seen before.

Just because I like it.

Above average for lists of this type. Interesting for at least two reasons: first, it has a number of movies I've seen and really liked, including the underrated Thief (#65), and second, it's compiled by John Nolte who is probably more politically conservative than the typical movie list compiler. 

Related: "The 25 Best High School Movies".