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 ArticleReview: ‘Posse’
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] All right. Posse is an unusual Western. But not that unusual. And it doesn’t end like nothing I’ve ever seen. In fact, it ends very much like...
View ArticleReview: ‘Middle of the World’
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] A thin mist covers an eerily silent, seemingly uninhabited countryside; a car carrying two men seeps into view and, without warning, tumbles...
View ArticleReview: ‘Undercovers Hero’
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] Undercovers Hero is a mess. In the great tradition of messes, its title doesn’t make sense, although it does serve to convey a category of...
View ArticleReview: ‘Smile’
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] The bilious purple lettering of the credits prepares us for Conrad Hall’s photographic style through the first half or so of Smile: motion...
View ArticleA Dalmatian Called Nixon
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] The Doberman Gang was playing all over Mexico City when I was there last June—including the front-page headlines. Passing up Byron Chudnow’s...
View ArticleReview: ‘And Now My Love’
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, July 1975] The first splotch of color in Claude Lelouch’s And Now My Love occurs somewhere around the end of World War Two. It is not simply a matter of...
View ArticleIn Black & White: gawlDurgnat
[Originally published in Movietone News 44, September 1975] THE STRANGE CASE OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK, or The Plain Man’s Hitchcock. By Raymond Durgnat. MIT Press. 429 pages. $15.00. For me, Raymond Durgnat...
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