Review: Windows
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] When Richard Fleischer visited the Seattle Film Society last spring, he bridled at the suggestion that Sven Nykvist, rather than he, had been...
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[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday may rate a footnote in film history as the first Hollywood Western to include oral-genital humor, and if...
View ArticleSummer of ’89: ‘Vampire’s Kiss’
Beginning with Nosferatu, the vampire has been depicted on film largely as a symbol of pestilence visited upon cities. Just as disease wreaks greatest havoc on places of densest population, the classic...
View ArticleReview: ‘92 in the Shade’
[Originally published in Movietone News 45, November 1975] Anyone seeking evidence that more writers should turn director ought to consider Tom McGuane in quarantine. 92 in the Shade has about as much...
View ArticleReview: Rancho Deluxe
[Originally published in Movietone News 40, April 1975] I have to be on the side of any film in which Harry Dean Stanton is ordered to “Hoover the Navajos”—i.e., vacuum-clean the Indian rugs. The line...
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Review: Windows
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] When Richard Fleischer visited the Seattle Film Society last spring, he bridled at the suggestion that Sven Nykvist, rather than he, had been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday may rate a footnote in film history as the first Hollywood Western to include oral-genital humor, and if...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Summer of ’89: ‘Vampire’s Kiss’
Beginning with Nosferatu, the vampire has been depicted on film largely as a symbol of pestilence visited upon cities. Just as disease wreaks greatest havoc on places of densest population, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: ‘92 in the Shade’
[Originally published in Movietone News 45, November 1975] Anyone seeking evidence that more writers should turn director ought to consider Tom McGuane in quarantine. 92 in the Shade has about as much...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Rancho Deluxe
[Originally published in Movietone News 40, April 1975] I have to be on the side of any film in which Harry Dean Stanton is ordered to “Hoover the Navajos”—i.e., vacuum-clean the Indian rugs. The line...
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