Some movie icons end their careers with memorable achievements while others leave behind an ignoble post-script to otherwise grand works. Film historian Geno Cuddy joins “The Online Movie Show” podcast to discuss the best and worst cinematic swan songs of all time.
The episode can be heard here.
Film history is littered with proposed projects that seemed tantalizing in concept, but somehow never found their way before the cameras. But were these aborted efforts destined to succeed? Seriously, would Stanley Kubrick’s proposed biopic of Napoleon or Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune” been instant classics? I think that some vigorous debates could be enjoyed on whether or not we should be fortunate those works never got made.