frank perry

The Film Adaptation of Joan Didion’s ‘Play It As It Lays’ Still Slays

The Film Adaptation of Joan Didion’s ‘Play It As It Lays’ Still Slays

There’s a danger to Frank Perry’s 1972 film adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel Play It As It Lays, and that’s why we’ve subdued it for so long. Now 50 years later, it’s time to unleash the beast.

Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg Show Us How to Be a Woman in the ’70s

Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg Show Us How to Be a Woman in the ’70s

Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg jolted audiences who weren’t used to unsatisfied and belittled housewives starring in a film, or to the concept of such people existing.

Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition (1981)

Swimming Home with John Cheever