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THE BULLETIN • OCTOBER 13 - 19, 2022
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“Movie: Whiplash”
J.K. Simmons (“The Closer”) won an Os-
car as best supporting actor — as well as a
slew of other awards — for writer-director
Damien Chazelle’s intense, character-driv-
en 2014 drama, which examines the
combative relationship between a music
student (Miles Teller) and a relentlessly de-
manding professor (Simmons). Paul Reiser
and Melissa Benoist (“Supergirl”) also ap-
pear, but veteran character actor Simmons
dominates in an electrifying performance.
BY JAY BOBBIN
“Some Like It Hot”
“The Peripheral”
“Modern Love Tokyo”
The anthology series that’s based on the
popular column in The New York Times
gets rebooted and set in Japan with a new
look, creators and cast. Like the original it
depicts various forms of love in a variety of
expressive ways. Unlike it, one of the sev-
en first season episodes will be animated.
(ORIGINAL)
Scott B. Smith (“A Simple Plan”) created
this sci-fi drama about Flynne (Chloe
Grace Moretz, “Dark Shadows”), a young
woman who works in a print shop in the
rural American South who discovers the
VR video game she’s been playing is ac-
tually real and has placed her in London
70 years in the future. Jack Reynor, Gary
Carr, JJ Feild and T’Nia Miller also star.
(ORIGINAL)
“Movie: Argentina, 1985”
Inspired by true events, this crime drama
from director Santiago Mitre (“The Stu-
dent”) tells the David-vs.-Goliath story of
the team of lawyers that dared to prosecute
Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship
in the 1980s to bring justice to the victims
of the Military Junta. Ricardo Darín (“The
Secret In Their Eyes”), Peter Lanzani and
Francisco Bertin star. (ORIGINAL)
BEST JACK LEMMON MOVIES
“Mister Roberts” (1955) Jack
Lemmon earned his first Oscar as Ensign
Pulver, friend to fellow officer Roberts
(Henry Fonda) and mutual nemesis
of the tyrannical commander (James
Cagney) of their World War II vessel in
the Pacific.
“Some Like It Hot” (1959) The
long association of Lemmon and director
Billy Wilder began with this classic
Depression-era comedy about two
murder-witness musicians (Lemmon, Tony
Curtis) who disguise themselves within an
all-female band to hide from the killers.
“Days of Wine and Roses”
(1962) This searing adaptation of a
television play features unforgettable
work by Lemmon and Lee Remick (under
director Blake Edwards) as a couple
devastated by alcoholism.
“The Great Race” (1965) Blake
Edwards’ sprawling road-race comedy
goes off the tracks in multiple ways, but
it gives Lemmon an opportunity to have
great fun as the villain trying to derail
the saga’s hero (Tony Curtis, reunited
with Lemmon).
“The Fortune Cookie” (1966)
Another reteaming with Billy Wilder
gave Lemmon his first project with
Walter Matthau, who earned an Oscar
as a shyster lawyer representing his
brother-in-law (Lemmon), a television
cameraman injured while covering a
football game.
“The Odd Couple” (1968)
Lemmon and Walter Matthau cemented
themselves as a screen comedy team as
neatnik Felix and slovenly Oscar in this
hit version of Neil Simon’s play.
“The Out-of-Towners” (1970)
Lemmon connected with playwright Neil
Simon again as he and Sandy Dennis
played Midwestern visitors who ran into
every problem imaginable while in New
York.
“The China Syndrome” (1979)
The dramatic skills of Lemmon again
got a great workout from his role as a
nuclear-plant supervisor determined to
expose dangers at the site with help from
a TV-news crew (Jane Fonda, Michael
Douglas).
“Missing” (1982) In this true story,
a compelling Lemmon plays a man who
goes to Chile and works with his daughter
in-law (Sissy Spacek) to find out what
happened to his vanished journalist son.
“Glengarry Glen Ross” (1992)
Lemmon is heartbreaking as a once-
prominent but now-declining real-estate
salesman in the film of David Mamet’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
“Grumpy Old Men” (1993)
Lemmon and Walter Matthau still had
some hits left in them when they made
this comedy about neighbors whose
long-standing feud is amped up by their
mutual interest in a local newcomer
(Ann-Margret).