One year after our rain dance to conquer the death of cinema, film critic/novelist/historian David Thomson welcomes me back for a dreamy convo about the spiritual treasures and booby traps of noir, the western, and the screwball comedy -- three worlds of movieland he has realized and reinvented in his enchanting fiction trilogy SUSPECTS, SILVER LIGHT, and the upcoming CONNECTICUT.  

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Story Board:

Willa Cather, Irene Selznick, black and white, Billy The Kid, Wyatt Earp, Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the last great western), Shirtless Pitt, Robert Towne, Heaven’s Gate, the self-expression of driving, light therapy, the importance of addiction, sports, San Francisco, gold rush, Red River, Searchers, Noah Cross, Trump, Chinatown, John Huston, Wes Anderson, Mullholland Dr., Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, the problem with Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sydney Lumet, Otto Preminger, Eddie Mueller, Raymond Chandler vs James Ellroy, The Big Sleep, Didion, Babitz, studio system, film set romance