Ivan Passer’s superb coda to the ’60s counterculture generation now enjoys a formidable reputation; this new Fun City Editions release packs it with terrific extras. It may have the best performances by top stars John Heard, Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn. Disaffected 30-somethings in Santa Barbara investigate a murder and then try to blackmail a corporate CEO. Heard is the maimed, one-eyed veteran already judged unstable, Bridges the yacht bum who gets by on his good looks, and Eichhorn the most forlorn woman of the early ’80s, looking for a reason to give a damn about something. Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography and Jack Nitzsche’s music track couldn’t be bettered; the movie deserves the place of honor granted to Easy Rider.
Cutter’s Way
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry,...
Cutter’s Way
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A million American GIs are bivouacked in the English countryside, awaiting debarkation to France… and the green fields are loaded with young English women, whose own men have been off fighting for years. John Schlesinger puts together a good drama, with an excellent cast; he also avoids the expected ‘please wait for me!’ clichés attendant to this subgenre of war film.
Yanks
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 139 min. / Street Date , 2019 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, Wendy Morgan, Rachel Roberts, Tony Melody, Derek Thompson.
Cinematography: Dick Bush
Film Editor: Jim Clark
Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Written by Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein
Produced by Joseph Janni, Lester Persky
Directed by John Schlesinger
Director John Boorman got to tell his personal wartime home front story in his warm and funny Hope and Glory, and eight years earlier the...
Yanks
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 139 min. / Street Date , 2019 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, Wendy Morgan, Rachel Roberts, Tony Melody, Derek Thompson.
Cinematography: Dick Bush
Film Editor: Jim Clark
Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Written by Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein
Produced by Joseph Janni, Lester Persky
Directed by John Schlesinger
Director John Boorman got to tell his personal wartime home front story in his warm and funny Hope and Glory, and eight years earlier the...
- 2/2/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Stars: Angela Dixon, Nigel Whitmey, Lisa Eichhorn, Velibor Topic, Heather Peace, Rami Nasr, Sarah Perles, Samantha Bolter, Michael Xavier, Glenn Salvage, Sanita Simms, Darcie Lincoln | Written and Directed by Howard J. Ford
How best to describe Never Let Go? How about a movie that feels like Paul Greengrass directed Taken, with a kick-ass leading female of T2 Linda Hamilton proportions…
In truth, in my humble opinion Never Let Go is actually way better than those Taken movies. I know, I know, I liked them when they first came out as well, but this movie completely took me by surprise… In the best possible way. Ladies and Gents, Angela Bloody Dixon. This leading lady is fantastic, she grips the viewer by the balls and takes you on a thrilling, tour de force ride, leaving you wondering exactly how far would you go for your kids.
So I guess I should give...
How best to describe Never Let Go? How about a movie that feels like Paul Greengrass directed Taken, with a kick-ass leading female of T2 Linda Hamilton proportions…
In truth, in my humble opinion Never Let Go is actually way better than those Taken movies. I know, I know, I liked them when they first came out as well, but this movie completely took me by surprise… In the best possible way. Ladies and Gents, Angela Bloody Dixon. This leading lady is fantastic, she grips the viewer by the balls and takes you on a thrilling, tour de force ride, leaving you wondering exactly how far would you go for your kids.
So I guess I should give...
- 9/21/2017
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Genre festival reveals masterclasses and film programme.
Horror Channel FrightFest (Aug 25-29) has unveiled the line-up of events and movies for its 2016 edition, set to be held at the Vue cinema in London’s Shepherds Bush.
Screen will host a panel on the future of the UK horror film industry, followed by the first Screen International Horror Rising Star Award [click here for the shortlist].
There will also be a horror writing master class with writer-director James Moran; a women in horror symposium; a special effects demo from maestro Dan Martin; and a discussion by filmmaker Paul Davis – who made John Landis approved doc Beware The Moon - marking the 35th anniversary of An American Werewolf In London.
The festival is also set to screen H.G. Lewis’ 1963 gore classic Blood Feast, which is getting a 4K restoration from Arrow.
The FrightFest audience will be the first in the UK to see The Neighbor, directed by Marcus Dunstan (The Collection).
The festival will also...
Horror Channel FrightFest (Aug 25-29) has unveiled the line-up of events and movies for its 2016 edition, set to be held at the Vue cinema in London’s Shepherds Bush.
Screen will host a panel on the future of the UK horror film industry, followed by the first Screen International Horror Rising Star Award [click here for the shortlist].
There will also be a horror writing master class with writer-director James Moran; a women in horror symposium; a special effects demo from maestro Dan Martin; and a discussion by filmmaker Paul Davis – who made John Landis approved doc Beware The Moon - marking the 35th anniversary of An American Werewolf In London.
The festival is also set to screen H.G. Lewis’ 1963 gore classic Blood Feast, which is getting a 4K restoration from Arrow.
The FrightFest audience will be the first in the UK to see The Neighbor, directed by Marcus Dunstan (The Collection).
The festival will also...
- 7/22/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
"Sorry, I just slashed my wrists." "Well, tape 'em!" This is the aftermath of the '60s protest movement. Ivan Passer's riveting murder mystery of flakes and losers in sun-drenched, guilty Santa Barbara expresses the rage of radicals faced with the growing class divide, and the arrogance of the wealthy. Cutter's Way Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Ship Date , 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina Van Pallandt. Cinematography Jordan Cronenweth Production Designer Josan F. Russo Film Editor Caroline Biggerstaff Original Music Jack Nitzsche Writing credits Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, from the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg. Produced by Paul R. Gurian Directed by Ivan Passer
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Gem Wheeler Jan 10, 2017
To mark 30 years of Inspector Morse on television, here are 10 of his most complex, macabre and memorable cases...
Warning: contains spoilers.
See related Legion: Marvel shares cryptic logo for X-Men series What can Fox learn from the previous X-Men TV series? 50 upcoming comic book TV shows, and when to expect them New TV 2016: 28 Us shows for this autumn
Beer, Wagner, a red Jaguar, and Barrington Pheloung’s haunting theme. Those images conjure up one of the most memorable characters in British television. Inspector Morse’s final episode aired in the UK over fifteen years ago, yet the impression left by the hugely popular drama remains indelible. Its popular spinoff, Lewis, finished only two years ago after nine successful series, while a prequel, Endeavour, has just started to air its fourth run. The appeal of Morse and his Oxford is clearly as strong as ever.
Inspector Morse...
To mark 30 years of Inspector Morse on television, here are 10 of his most complex, macabre and memorable cases...
Warning: contains spoilers.
See related Legion: Marvel shares cryptic logo for X-Men series What can Fox learn from the previous X-Men TV series? 50 upcoming comic book TV shows, and when to expect them New TV 2016: 28 Us shows for this autumn
Beer, Wagner, a red Jaguar, and Barrington Pheloung’s haunting theme. Those images conjure up one of the most memorable characters in British television. Inspector Morse’s final episode aired in the UK over fifteen years ago, yet the impression left by the hugely popular drama remains indelible. Its popular spinoff, Lewis, finished only two years ago after nine successful series, while a prequel, Endeavour, has just started to air its fourth run. The appeal of Morse and his Oxford is clearly as strong as ever.
Inspector Morse...
- 2/8/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Cinema’s Hidden Pearls – Part I
By Alex Simon
One of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a clam, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. Truly flawless pearls are infrequently produced in nature, and as a result, the pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. Hidden pearls exist in the world of movies, as well: films that, in spite of being brilliantly crafted and executed, never got the audience they deserved beyond a cult following.
Here are a few of our favorite hidden pearls in the world of film:
1. Night Moves (1975)
Director Arthur Penn hit three home runs in a row with the trifecta of Bonnie & Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man,...
By Alex Simon
One of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a clam, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. Truly flawless pearls are infrequently produced in nature, and as a result, the pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. Hidden pearls exist in the world of movies, as well: films that, in spite of being brilliantly crafted and executed, never got the audience they deserved beyond a cult following.
Here are a few of our favorite hidden pearls in the world of film:
1. Night Moves (1975)
Director Arthur Penn hit three home runs in a row with the trifecta of Bonnie & Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man,...
- 6/28/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a trailer for Never Let Go, new episode details from L.A. Macabre and How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, the short film Knock Knock, a Q&A featuring The Walking Dead‘s Amber Dawn Fox, and much more:
Never Let Go Trailer and Premiere Details: “Here is a sneak preview of what’s up for grabs at the Berlin Film Festival later this week – Howard J Ford’s (Director/Producer Co-Writer of ‘The Dead 1&2″) latest epic Never Let Go. Shot in Morocco, Spain and the Us, the film tells the story of Lisa, a single mother (played by Angela Dixon) who takes the law into her own hands to get back her abducted child. The completed film will screen at Cannes Market in May.
Howard Ford said today:...
Never Let Go Trailer and Premiere Details: “Here is a sneak preview of what’s up for grabs at the Berlin Film Festival later this week – Howard J Ford’s (Director/Producer Co-Writer of ‘The Dead 1&2″) latest epic Never Let Go. Shot in Morocco, Spain and the Us, the film tells the story of Lisa, a single mother (played by Angela Dixon) who takes the law into her own hands to get back her abducted child. The completed film will screen at Cannes Market in May.
Howard Ford said today:...
- 2/8/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
As promised back in early December when we broke news on the film entering post-production, the first trailer for Howard J Ford’s (Director/Producer Co-Writer of The Dead 1 & 2) latest film, the child abduction thriller Never Let Go, has landed – just in time for the Berlin Film Festival!
Shot in Morocco, Spain and the Us, Never Let Go tells the story of Lisa, a single mother played by Angela Dixon, who takes the law into her own hands to get back her abducted child. Also starring is Bafta award winning actress Lisa Eichhorn; along with Rami Nasr, Nigel Whitmey, Velibor Topic, Heather Peace, Sarah Perles, Michael Xavier, and Samantha Bolter.
Announcing the trailer debut, Howard Ford adds:
Having nearly lost my own child whilst on holiday in Malta, I have experienced briefly first hand that feeling of all-encompassing dread as you fear the absolute worst. I became intrigued by this...
Shot in Morocco, Spain and the Us, Never Let Go tells the story of Lisa, a single mother played by Angela Dixon, who takes the law into her own hands to get back her abducted child. Also starring is Bafta award winning actress Lisa Eichhorn; along with Rami Nasr, Nigel Whitmey, Velibor Topic, Heather Peace, Sarah Perles, Michael Xavier, and Samantha Bolter.
Announcing the trailer debut, Howard Ford adds:
Having nearly lost my own child whilst on holiday in Malta, I have experienced briefly first hand that feeling of all-encompassing dread as you fear the absolute worst. I became intrigued by this...
- 2/3/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Acclaimed director Howard J Ford’s latest feature Never Let Go has entered post production, Shot under wraps in Morocco, Spain Us and the UK, the action thriller follows the harrowing journey of Lisa, a single mother (played by Angela Dixon) whose daughter is abducted whilst on holiday. In a desperate race against time Lisa will stop at nothing to find her missing child. Also starring is Bafta award winning actress Lisa Eichhorn.
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- 12/18/2014
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Acclaimed director Howard J Ford’s latest feature Never Let Go has entered post production. Shot under wraps in Morocco, Spain Us and the UK, the action thriller follows the harrowing journey of Lisa, a single mother (played by Angela Dixon) whose daughter is abducted whilst on holiday. In a desperate race against time Lisa will stop at nothing to find her missing child. Also starring is Bafta award winning actress Lisa Eichhorn.
Writer/dDirector Howard, famed for the The Dead 1 & 2, states:
I want to take audiences on a very believable but nerve shredding journey that throws them into the visceral plight that is the worst fear of parents everywhere. There are tragically so many missing children out there, it’s something that affects people deeply all over the world and my hope is that this film does not only work dramatically but also forms part of maintaining awareness of...
Writer/dDirector Howard, famed for the The Dead 1 & 2, states:
I want to take audiences on a very believable but nerve shredding journey that throws them into the visceral plight that is the worst fear of parents everywhere. There are tragically so many missing children out there, it’s something that affects people deeply all over the world and my hope is that this film does not only work dramatically but also forms part of maintaining awareness of...
- 12/4/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
When a filmmaker creates a period piece, the audience will expect certain details to be highlighted as an effort of world-building and cinematic magic. They are commonly referred to as costume dramas, a display of a large amount of money pumped into costume and set design to amaze modern audiences in their plight for historicity. With The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann was able to milk our infatuation to the point that several men’s fashion designers crafted clothing lines around the film. There are anywhere from one to three big pictures like this each year that will flaunt their stars in period-perfect garb, take home their Best Picture Oscar, and fall into obscurity. What may rescue many of these films is their ability to not simply match the look of the past, but its feeling, the atmosphere of the times that helps audiences relate to characters long dead and presented in unimaginable circumstances.
- 11/26/2013
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – Five years after earning praise for his directorial debut, “…Around,” indie filmmaker David Spaltro has returned behind the camera to deliver his second feature. The film, “Things I Don’t Understand” may be many things, but a sophomore slump it is not. Its assured craftsmanship, fine performances and provocative themes have made it one of the most buzzed-about pictures on the festival circuit.
Molly Ryman stars as Violet, a jaded grad student who develops a friendship with two outsiders—a mysterious bartender, Parker (Aaron Mathias), and a cancer-stricken teen, Sara (Grace Folsom). Meanwhile, Violet’s eccentric roommates, Gabby (Meissa Hampton) and Remy (Hugo Dillon), struggle to avoid getting evicted from their cozy loft. Beautifully lensed by cinematographer Gus Sacks, the film explores faith, doubt, friendship and the beauty that can be found in catharsis. Spaltro served as writer, producer, director and editor on the picture, which has already garnered various awards this year.
Molly Ryman stars as Violet, a jaded grad student who develops a friendship with two outsiders—a mysterious bartender, Parker (Aaron Mathias), and a cancer-stricken teen, Sara (Grace Folsom). Meanwhile, Violet’s eccentric roommates, Gabby (Meissa Hampton) and Remy (Hugo Dillon), struggle to avoid getting evicted from their cozy loft. Beautifully lensed by cinematographer Gus Sacks, the film explores faith, doubt, friendship and the beauty that can be found in catharsis. Spaltro served as writer, producer, director and editor on the picture, which has already garnered various awards this year.
- 7/25/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Which is more shocking: the fact that Barbra Streisand turns 70 years old today, or the fact that she's been famous for more than 50 of them? Bottom line, everything about Barbara Joan Streisand is astounding, and we've compiled 70 accomplishments, songs, performances, and trivia items to celebrate about the most accomplished female vocalist of the past century. Don your naughtiest Owl and the Pussycat lingerie and jump along with us through a haphazard history of the woman who dazzled Broadway, dumbfounded Ryan O'Neal (I am obsessed with What's Up, Doc?), and has remained larger than life for longer than anyone else.
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days...
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days...
- 4/24/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
- 2/26/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The Movie Pool joins the first-ever Opposing Force (aka Hell Camp) DVD!
The Set-up
An overzealous military camp commander (Anthony Zerbe) abuses a female soldier (Lisa Eichhorn) during torture training, leading her comrade (Tom Skerritt) to take serious measures to stop his brutality. Also stars Richard Roundtree.
Directed by: Eric Karson
The Delivery
Originally released under the title Hell Camp, this 1986 military drama pre-dates G.I. Jane by over a decade, but it was more brutal and not nearly as stylized as the later Demi Moore debacle. Golden Globe nominee Lisa Eichhorn stars as Casey, an Air Force pilot who volunteers for a brutal survival training exercise, only to fall victim to a sadistic commander named Becker, played by Anthony Zerbe. Becker decides Casey must learn the harsh realities of being a possible prisoner of war, so he rapes her "for her own good."
This doesn't sit well with Logan (Tom Skerritt...
The Set-up
An overzealous military camp commander (Anthony Zerbe) abuses a female soldier (Lisa Eichhorn) during torture training, leading her comrade (Tom Skerritt) to take serious measures to stop his brutality. Also stars Richard Roundtree.
Directed by: Eric Karson
The Delivery
Originally released under the title Hell Camp, this 1986 military drama pre-dates G.I. Jane by over a decade, but it was more brutal and not nearly as stylized as the later Demi Moore debacle. Golden Globe nominee Lisa Eichhorn stars as Casey, an Air Force pilot who volunteers for a brutal survival training exercise, only to fall victim to a sadistic commander named Becker, played by Anthony Zerbe. Becker decides Casey must learn the harsh realities of being a possible prisoner of war, so he rapes her "for her own good."
This doesn't sit well with Logan (Tom Skerritt...
- 2/22/2012
- by medina.victor@sbcglobal.net (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
A 30th-anniversary reissue for 80s curio Cutter's Way finds Jeff Bridges in sports jacket, open-necked shirt and jeans, a look he carries off with nonchalant ease, luxuriant hair and the tidiest of moustaches. Set in Santa Barbara, this is Californian noir, as Bridges's yacht salesman Bone is caught in a plot to blackmail a local industrialist, egged on by crippled Vietnam vet Cutter, raucously played by John Heard. There is much to like (Lisa Eichhorn's alcoholic Mo is rather wonderful), although the film's climax, with a runaway horse and people knocking over buffet tables in a big mansion, is straight out of Hart to Hart.
Celebrating 20 years with a reissued digital clean-up, Japanese manga masterpiece Akira returns to big screens. Although this particular cyberpunk, post-apocalypse style has never appealed to me, it undoubtedly retains a fiendishly inventive sci-fi plot and boasts remarkable cinematic scope for hand-painted animation.
CrimeJeff BridgesAnimationJapanJason Solomons
guardian.
Celebrating 20 years with a reissued digital clean-up, Japanese manga masterpiece Akira returns to big screens. Although this particular cyberpunk, post-apocalypse style has never appealed to me, it undoubtedly retains a fiendishly inventive sci-fi plot and boasts remarkable cinematic scope for hand-painted animation.
CrimeJeff BridgesAnimationJapanJason Solomons
guardian.
- 6/25/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
The UK’s Park Circus Releasing is putting Cutter’s Way back where it belongs and Josh writes the film a love letter.
Park Circus is doing magical work over in the UK, distributing classic (and lost classic) films and returning them to the movie screens that they deserve to be seen on. They’re most recent release is the forgotten 1981 film Cutter’s Way, which returns to UK cinemas this weekend as part of a 2-month-long BFI retrospective of the great Jeff Bridges.
I know that Joe Dante’s not much of a fan of this particular movie, but prolific Tfh-favorite Josh Olson certainly is. We ran his trailer commentary just a couple of months ago.
And now he’s popped up over on the Park Circus blog, putting his pen where his mouth is and writing quite the ode to the film:
The film hit me like a bomb.
Park Circus is doing magical work over in the UK, distributing classic (and lost classic) films and returning them to the movie screens that they deserve to be seen on. They’re most recent release is the forgotten 1981 film Cutter’s Way, which returns to UK cinemas this weekend as part of a 2-month-long BFI retrospective of the great Jeff Bridges.
I know that Joe Dante’s not much of a fan of this particular movie, but prolific Tfh-favorite Josh Olson certainly is. We ran his trailer commentary just a couple of months ago.
And now he’s popped up over on the Park Circus blog, putting his pen where his mouth is and writing quite the ode to the film:
The film hit me like a bomb.
- 6/24/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Bridesmaids (15)
(Paul Feig, 2011, Us) Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, 125 mins.
Having recovered from the shocking revelation that women can be funny, rude, and entertaining in the absence of men, we can at last put the debates and Hangover comparisons this movie has prompted behind us now and just enjoy a satisfying prenuptial comedy. Led by Wiig's anxious maid of honour, it certainly matches male equivalents in the grossness stakes at times, but it also finds deeper, smarter ways to make us laugh.
Incendies (15)
(Denis Villeneuve, 2010, Can/Fra) Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. 131 mins.
A mother's death sets her two children on an investigation into their personal and political history in this powerful mystery, set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country.
Countdown To Zero (Nc)
(Lucy Walker, 2010, Us) 89 mins.
Not got enough things to worry about? That's because you forgot about the threat of nuclear annihilation that still hangs over us.
(Paul Feig, 2011, Us) Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, 125 mins.
Having recovered from the shocking revelation that women can be funny, rude, and entertaining in the absence of men, we can at last put the debates and Hangover comparisons this movie has prompted behind us now and just enjoy a satisfying prenuptial comedy. Led by Wiig's anxious maid of honour, it certainly matches male equivalents in the grossness stakes at times, but it also finds deeper, smarter ways to make us laugh.
Incendies (15)
(Denis Villeneuve, 2010, Can/Fra) Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. 131 mins.
A mother's death sets her two children on an investigation into their personal and political history in this powerful mystery, set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country.
Countdown To Zero (Nc)
(Lucy Walker, 2010, Us) 89 mins.
Not got enough things to worry about? That's because you forgot about the threat of nuclear annihilation that still hangs over us.
- 6/24/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This long-neglected drama with Jeff Bridges is an unclassifiably brilliant gem of American independent film-making
Here is a movie to which the response can't be: "They don't make them like that any more", because they really didn't make them like that at the time. This 1981 indie gem by Czech-born director Ivan Passer is a complex, unclassifiable, unlocatable drama. Is it a buddy movie? A mystery thriller? A noir? A metaphysical essay on the return from Vietnam? Jeff Bridges is Bone, a laidback womanising guy who works at a marina; his buddy Cutter – superbly played by John Heard – is disabled, alcoholic Vietnam veteran in a co-dependent relationship with Mo (Lisa Eichhorn). Cutter is galvanised when he thinks a wealthy local has carried out a murder, and does his best to involve Bone in his fanatical investigations. Cutter could be right, or his fixation could be a final expression of existential boredom and despair,...
Here is a movie to which the response can't be: "They don't make them like that any more", because they really didn't make them like that at the time. This 1981 indie gem by Czech-born director Ivan Passer is a complex, unclassifiable, unlocatable drama. Is it a buddy movie? A mystery thriller? A noir? A metaphysical essay on the return from Vietnam? Jeff Bridges is Bone, a laidback womanising guy who works at a marina; his buddy Cutter – superbly played by John Heard – is disabled, alcoholic Vietnam veteran in a co-dependent relationship with Mo (Lisa Eichhorn). Cutter is galvanised when he thinks a wealthy local has carried out a murder, and does his best to involve Bone in his fanatical investigations. Cutter could be right, or his fixation could be a final expression of existential boredom and despair,...
- 6/23/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Three decades later, John Patterson still can't get enough of watching Jeff Bridges and John Heard try to avenge a murder in Cutter's Way
Thirty years on from its botched original release, Ivan Passer's note-perfect, sun-splashed neo-noir thriller Cutter's Way has slowly fought its way up from cult obscurity. As one of the lucky few who saw it then, and having loved it madly ever since, I couldn't be happier to see it available once more.
Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors. It belongs alongside Karel Reisz's Who'll Stop The Rain (its perfect double-bill doppelganger), and Arthur Penn and Alan Sharpe's Night Moves – both visions of a post-Vietnam, post-Watergate American malaise.
Cutter's Way opens with a girl's corpse dumped in a trashcan in a rainswept Santa Barbara back alley,...
Thirty years on from its botched original release, Ivan Passer's note-perfect, sun-splashed neo-noir thriller Cutter's Way has slowly fought its way up from cult obscurity. As one of the lucky few who saw it then, and having loved it madly ever since, I couldn't be happier to see it available once more.
Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors. It belongs alongside Karel Reisz's Who'll Stop The Rain (its perfect double-bill doppelganger), and Arthur Penn and Alan Sharpe's Night Moves – both visions of a post-Vietnam, post-Watergate American malaise.
Cutter's Way opens with a girl's corpse dumped in a trashcan in a rainswept Santa Barbara back alley,...
- 6/3/2011
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The official New York Oscar Night Party at the Carlyle drew a who's who of old Hollywood, including Shirley Knight, Celia Weston, Rip Torn, Patricia Neal, Sylvia Miles and Elaine Stritch. The "kids" who showed included Geoffrey Rush, Denis O'Hare, Burt Young, Amy Wright, Tovah Feldshuh, Lisa Eichhorn, Tina Louise and David Rasche.
- 2/23/2009
- NYPost.com
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