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Monte Walsh (Fraker, 1970)
Lyrical Westerns like Monte Walsh and kindred blood-brothers Junior Bonner and Pat Garret and Billy the Kid were all released in the 1970’s, a decade of American Cinema flushed with poetic genre… more →
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Monte Walsh (Fraker, 1970)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 3 months ago: Lyrical Westerns like Monte Walsh and kindred blood-brothers Junior Bonner and Pat Garret and Billy … more →
Breaking Away (Yates, 1979)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: Modern Hollywood films often package inspiration with false-sentiment, a costly price-tag that has m … more →
The Missouri Breaks (Penn, 1976)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: What begins as a dirty and schizophrenic revisionist Western akin to Benton’s Bad Company, gra … more →
Wise Blood (Huston, 1979)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: John Huston’s Wise Blood depicts an American South caught between eras, where memories of slav … more →
Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 4 months ago: I hadn’t seen this in years, yet it feels like an old friend I didn’t quite fully apprec … more →
Avanti! (Wilder, 1972)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 5 months ago: Avanti! captures that certain magical essence of experiencing a foreign land for the first time, usi … more →
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 5 months ago: The Friends of Eddie Coyle displays a criminal world so fragile, so unassuming, it’s shocking … more →
...no lies (Block, 1972)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 5 months ago: - Posted for the June selection of The Film of the Month Club, Mitchell Block’s stunning short … more →
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wise, 1979)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 7 months ago: I’ve never been a Star Trek fan. The original 1960’s show is campy at best and painfully … more →
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Cimino, 1974)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 7 months ago: I’ve posted my thoughts over at The Film of the Month Club, where Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is … more →
Love on the Run (Truffaut, 1979)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 8 months ago: Francois Truffaut ends the Doniel cycle with Love on the Run, a mish-mash of flashbacks, dynamic nar … more →
Bed and Board (Truffaut, 1970)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 8 months ago: If Stolen Kisses pays homage to the Detective and Comedy genres, then Bed and Board lovingly referen … more →
The King of Marvin Gardens (Rafelson, 1972)
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Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 9 months ago: Bob Rafelson’s brilliantly strange film The King of Marvin Gardens defies narrative expectatio … more →
Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 9 months ago: Everyone talks about the connections between Chabrol and Hitchcock, but what about the French master … more →
The New Centurions (Fleischer, 1972)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 10 months ago: A strange deconstruction of the L.A. Cop drama focusing on how the family unit disintegrates because … more →
The Andromeda Strain (Wise, 1971)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Michael Crichton, the very influential (at least to me and my brother) author of Jurassic Park, The … more →
The Late Show (Benton, 1977)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Art Carney’s brilliantly grizzled performance anchors The Late Show, a fun and nostalgic detec … more →
The Omen (Donner, 1976)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: It’s almost Halloween, so I figured it was about time I sat through this “holiday classi … more →
Framed (Karlson, 1974)
Glenn Heath Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Framed mixes the violent angst of 1970’s American cinema with old school Noir seediness in a d … more →
