Review: Comes a Horseman
[Originally published in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] The title of Alan J Pakula’s latest film echoes the old stock melodrama line “Along comes Jones” and that’s no accident. Here we have a...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Cable Hogue
Plantin’ and readin’, plantin’ and readin’. Fill a man fulla lead, stick ’im in the ground, then read words at him. Why when you’ve killed a man do you then try to read the Lord in as a...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Cable Hogue
[Originally published in Film Comment Volume 17 Number 1, January/February 1981] “If I cannot rouse heaven,” says the Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner) in The Ballad of Cable Hogue, “I...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Cable Hogue and Jr. Bonner: Another Side of Sam Peckinpah
[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] At a basic level, Peckinpah’s is a cinema of oppositions. When one thinks of Westerns, a genre whose configurations and conventions Peckinpah...
View ArticleReview: Julia
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August 1978] Whatever Lillian Hellman’s attitude about herself may be—in Pentimento and elsewhere—Fred Zinnemann’s Julia is at pains to glamorize...
View ArticleReview: A Boy and His Dog
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] One plunges straight into unknown territory and action in A Boy and His Dog: Tatterdemalion figures dodging about in a wasteland, shooting at...
View ArticleVideophiled Classic: Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Noon Wine’
The Killer Elite / Noon Wine (1966) (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – By even the most generous measure, The Killer Elite (1975) is one of Sam Peckinpah’s weakest film. Which, by Peckinpah standards, is still...
View ArticleVideophiled: Twilight Time’s bloody ‘Valentine’
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) gave Roger Corman the biggest budget of his career to date. After more than 40 films, most of them for the budget-challenged AIP, he was hired...
View ArticleReview: Melvin and Howard
[originally published in The Weekly, November 5, 1980] Middle of the night in the Nevada desert, a little ways off the Tonapah Highway. Melvin Dummar has left the main road to take a whiz. Decent young...
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Plantin†and readinâ€, plantin†and readinâ€. Fill a man fulla lead, stick â€im in the ground, then read words at him. Why when youâ€ve killed a man do you then try to read the Lord in as a partner...
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
[Originally published in Film Comment Volume 17 Number 1, January/February 1981] “If I cannot rouse heaven,” says the Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner) in The Ballad of Cable Hogue, “I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Jr. Bonner: Another Side of Sam Peckinpah
[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] At a basic level, Peckinpah’s is a cinema of oppositions. When one thinks of Westerns, a genre whose configurations and conventions Peckinpah...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Julia
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August 1978] Whatever Lillian Hellmanâ€s attitude about herself may be—in Pentimento and elsewhere—Fred Zinnemannâ€s Julia is at pains to glamorize...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: A Boy and His Dog
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] One plunges straight into unknown territory and action in A Boy and His Dog: Tatterdemalion figures dodging about in a wasteland, shooting at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Videophiled Classic: Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Noon Wine’
The Killer Elite / Noon Wine (1966) (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – By even the most generous measure, The Killer Elite (1975) is one of Sam Peckinpah’s weakest film. Which, by Peckinpah standards, is still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Videophiled: Twilight Time’s bloody ‘Valentine’
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) gave Roger Corman the biggest budget of his career to date. After more than 40 films, most of them for the budget-challenged AIP, he was hired...
View ArticleReview: Melvin and Howard
[originally published in The Weekly, November 5, 1980] Middle of the night in the Nevada desert, a little ways off the Tonapah Highway. Melvin Dummar has left the main road to take a whiz. Decent young...
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