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By Doug Oswald
Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen and Gene Hackman are on opposing sides of “The Hunting Party,”a 1971 Western released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber. Reed is Frank Calder who kidnaps school teacher Melissa Ruger (Bergen). The plan is to hold her for a ransom, but Frank also wants Melissa to teach him to read. Frank and his gang are pursued by Melissa’s sadistic husband Brandt Ruger (Hackman), a wealthy and powerful rancher. The film opens with Frank and his gang killing and butchering a cow from a heard of cattle and cutting out chunks of meat which they eat raw. The scene is disconcerting and is juxtaposed with a scene of Brandt forcing himself on Melissa, who is not enjoying his actions which border on rape and clearly involve the infliction of pain.
Frank’s gang are warned...
By Doug Oswald
Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen and Gene Hackman are on opposing sides of “The Hunting Party,”a 1971 Western released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber. Reed is Frank Calder who kidnaps school teacher Melissa Ruger (Bergen). The plan is to hold her for a ransom, but Frank also wants Melissa to teach him to read. Frank and his gang are pursued by Melissa’s sadistic husband Brandt Ruger (Hackman), a wealthy and powerful rancher. The film opens with Frank and his gang killing and butchering a cow from a heard of cattle and cutting out chunks of meat which they eat raw. The scene is disconcerting and is juxtaposed with a scene of Brandt forcing himself on Melissa, who is not enjoying his actions which border on rape and clearly involve the infliction of pain.
Frank’s gang are warned...
- 1/30/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Above: The Great Train RobberyThe western has been around since nearly the advent of cinema. Some of Thomas Edison’s earliest films incorporated standard conventions of the genre, established in preceding works of popular fiction, and other key tropes were solidified in Edwin S. Porter’s pioneering The Great Train Robbery (1903). Primarily originating on the East Coast, American motion picture production soon made its general migration west where the geographic consequences only amplified the form, enticing the likes of producers and directors including Thomas Ince and Cecil B. DeMille. The western swiftly flourished as an exuberant, manifold survey of idealized, often exaggerated themes concerning heroism, progress, and the myth of the American dream. The genre became a beloved compendium of cultural dichotomies, iconic symbols, locations, and character types, evincing countless variations alongside the tried and true.
- 7/21/2020
- MUBI
Arthur Penn’s under-appreciated epic has everything a big-scale western could want — spectacle, interesting characters, good history and a sense of humor. Dustin Hoffman gets to play at least five characters in one as an ancient pioneer relating his career exploits — which are either outrageous tall tales or a concise history of the taking of The West.
Little Big Man
Region B Blu-ray
Koch Media
1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 139 147 min. / Available from Amazon.de / Street Date September 14, 2017 / Eur 17.99
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey, Aimée Eccles, Kelly Jean Peters, Carole Androsky, Ruben Moreno, William Hickey, Jesse Vint, Alan Oppenheimer, Thayer David.
Cinematography: Harry Stradling Jr.
Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Angelo P. Graham
Special Makeup: Dick Smith
Special Effects: Logan Frazee
Film Editors: Dede Allen, Richard Marks
Original Music: John Hammond
Written by Calder Willingham from the novel by Thomas Berger
Produced...
Little Big Man
Region B Blu-ray
Koch Media
1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 139 147 min. / Available from Amazon.de / Street Date September 14, 2017 / Eur 17.99
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey, Aimée Eccles, Kelly Jean Peters, Carole Androsky, Ruben Moreno, William Hickey, Jesse Vint, Alan Oppenheimer, Thayer David.
Cinematography: Harry Stradling Jr.
Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Angelo P. Graham
Special Makeup: Dick Smith
Special Effects: Logan Frazee
Film Editors: Dede Allen, Richard Marks
Original Music: John Hammond
Written by Calder Willingham from the novel by Thomas Berger
Produced...
- 11/28/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Blu-ray fans are now well aware that many great movies unavailable in the U.S., can be easily found in Europe. One of the best westerns of the ’70s is this jarringly realistic cavalry vs. Apaches drama from Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster, which used the ‘R’ rating to show savage details that Hollywood had once avoided. In this case it works — the genuinely scary movie is also a serious meditation on violent America.
Ulzana’s Raid
(Keine Gnade für Ulzana)
All-region Blu-ray + Pal DVD
Explosive Media
1972 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date November 9, 2017 / available through the Amazon Germany website / Eur 17,99
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Joaquín Martínez, Lloyd Bochner, Karl Swenson, Douglass Watson, Dran Hamilton, Gladys Holland, Aimee Eccles, Tony Epper, Nick Cravat, Richard Farnsworth, Dean Smith.
Cinematography: Joseph Biroc
Film Editor: Michael Luciano
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Alan Sharp
Produced by...
Ulzana’s Raid
(Keine Gnade für Ulzana)
All-region Blu-ray + Pal DVD
Explosive Media
1972 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date November 9, 2017 / available through the Amazon Germany website / Eur 17,99
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Joaquín Martínez, Lloyd Bochner, Karl Swenson, Douglass Watson, Dran Hamilton, Gladys Holland, Aimee Eccles, Tony Epper, Nick Cravat, Richard Farnsworth, Dean Smith.
Cinematography: Joseph Biroc
Film Editor: Michael Luciano
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Alan Sharp
Produced by...
- 11/18/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Movie violence used to have a point, says John Patterson, but this ultra-violent adaptation has more in common with Saw and Hostel than John Fowles
When I first heard about The Collector, the latest obscenely tedious entry in the torture-porn stakes, I wondered if the estate of the late John Fowles – author of the famed middlebrow novel that became the 1965 William Wyler film – might not have a tasty copyright infringement case on its hands.
And then I saw the new movie. "Saw" is the operative word in this context, since its writer-directors, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, have umbilical connections with that now long-running franchise showcasing inventive sadism and animal brutality. Frankly, besides the shared title, the new Collector lies a long way from what was in its day a nice, creepy little kidnap-and-imprisonment movie whose main themes were the divisions caused by class and disparity in education.
On the other hand,...
When I first heard about The Collector, the latest obscenely tedious entry in the torture-porn stakes, I wondered if the estate of the late John Fowles – author of the famed middlebrow novel that became the 1965 William Wyler film – might not have a tasty copyright infringement case on its hands.
And then I saw the new movie. "Saw" is the operative word in this context, since its writer-directors, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, have umbilical connections with that now long-running franchise showcasing inventive sadism and animal brutality. Frankly, besides the shared title, the new Collector lies a long way from what was in its day a nice, creepy little kidnap-and-imprisonment movie whose main themes were the divisions caused by class and disparity in education.
On the other hand,...
- 7/2/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
After years of ambiguous anti-war movies, HBO's TV epic gives audiences a familiar, clear-cut bad guy
When the first episode of Band Of Brothers, HBO's 10-part saga of a parachute infantry company's progress from D-Day to the German surrender and beyond, was broadcast on American television on 9 September, 2001, the United States had not participated in a full-scale, open-ended shooting war for 25 years, since the withdrawal from Vietnam. Episode two aired five days after the 9/11 attacks, and one suspects many Americans watched its depiction of the D-Day landings with a far greater sense of involvement and gravity than they otherwise might have.
The Pacific, made for HBO by the same team of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, airs by contrast at a time when America is deeply involved in two distinct and socially divisive wars.
Band Of Brothers had an idealistic, uplifting side along with all the violence and bloodshed. In...
When the first episode of Band Of Brothers, HBO's 10-part saga of a parachute infantry company's progress from D-Day to the German surrender and beyond, was broadcast on American television on 9 September, 2001, the United States had not participated in a full-scale, open-ended shooting war for 25 years, since the withdrawal from Vietnam. Episode two aired five days after the 9/11 attacks, and one suspects many Americans watched its depiction of the D-Day landings with a far greater sense of involvement and gravity than they otherwise might have.
The Pacific, made for HBO by the same team of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, airs by contrast at a time when America is deeply involved in two distinct and socially divisive wars.
Band Of Brothers had an idealistic, uplifting side along with all the violence and bloodshed. In...
- 4/3/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
I recently posted an item on S & A about the controversial film Serbian Film which was screened recently at the SXSW in Austin to stunned reactions from the sickening violence and depravity in the film. The fact that films have been always controversial over violent content is definitely not a new thing and I was reminded by that when I recently came across an article about the now forgotten 1970 western Soldier Blue. A massive hit in the U.K. and overseas but far less so in the U.S. (for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) the film was produced by Avco Embassy, a major film production company back then, and directed by Ralph Nelson.
Nelson, who died in 1987, made several films with Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, Duel at Diablo, The Wilby Conspiracy) and many other films that dealt, as well, with social issues such as 1969’s …tick.
Nelson, who died in 1987, made several films with Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, Duel at Diablo, The Wilby Conspiracy) and many other films that dealt, as well, with social issues such as 1969’s …tick.
- 3/28/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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