Savant UK correspondent Lee Broughton analyzes one of his favorite pictures starring Stacy Keach, who seemed to make only cult items in the '70s and '80s. William Peter Blatty dishes out a thick mix of comedy and dark soul-searching about the human condition as a Caligari- insane asylum, but with new twists. The Ninth Configuration Second Sight Region B Blu-ray 1980 / Colour / 2.35:1 enhanced widescreen / 118 m. / available through Amazon.uk Starring Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George Dicenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell, Tom Atkins. Cinematography Gerry Fisher Production Design William Malley Film Editors Peter Taylor, T. Battle Davis, Roberto Silvi, Peter Lee-Thompson Original Music Barry DeVorzon Written, Produced and Directed by William Peter Blatty from his novel
Reviewed by Lee Broughton
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Reviewed by Lee Broughton
(Note: Savant reviews as a guest at Tfh. Here I stretch my prerogatives by presenting a review from Lee Broughton, a valued U.
- 6/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every day, we'll be examining what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. Next up, one of the starrier entries in the lineup: Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman." The director: Tommy Lee Jones (American, 67 years old). Well, you know -- it's Tommy Lee Jones. The Texas-born, Harvard-educated actor began his acting career on Broadway, and landed his first film role in the 1970 smash "Love Story" before beginning a five-year stint on the soap opera "One Life to Live." His big-screen breakthrough came in the 1980 Oscar winner "Coal Miner's Daughter"; he picked up an Emmy for one of several TV movies he made in the decade, and his first Oscar nod in 1992 for "JFK.
- 5/9/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in The Homesman. Produced by Luc Besson, the film features a huge cast – Hilary Swank, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, James Spader, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Tim Blake Nelson, William Fichtner and Meryl Streep.
A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
Behind the scenes crew includes composer Marco Beltrami (World War Z), production designer Merideth Boswell (Apollo 13), editor Roberto Silvi (The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada) and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (The Wolf Of Wall Street).
The film is expected to screen in May at the Cannes International Film Festival, followed by showings at Telluride and Toronto later this year.
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A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
Behind the scenes crew includes composer Marco Beltrami (World War Z), production designer Merideth Boswell (Apollo 13), editor Roberto Silvi (The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada) and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (The Wolf Of Wall Street).
The film is expected to screen in May at the Cannes International Film Festival, followed by showings at Telluride and Toronto later this year.
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- 4/14/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"More personal and obsessive than his 1996 Shakespeare documentary Looking for Richard, with which it has much in common, Al Pacino's long-in-the-making Wilde Salome is both an intriguing exploration of Oscar Wilde's play about the destructive use of sexuality and an intimate self-portrait of the actor/director as he over-extends himself into performing Salome on stage and shooting a film — this film — at the same time." Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter: "Researching Salome, which he performed twice on stage, becomes an 'obsession' as he struggles to find the right mixture of the play, Wilde, himself making the play and making a movie about all of the above. Editors Roberto Silvi and David Leonard do a Herculean job compiling very disparate material into an engrossing, smooth-flowing film."
It's "an enjoyable mess," finds Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek, "particularly for anyone who gets a thrill out of documentaries about process…. [D]uring the course of it,...
It's "an enjoyable mess," finds Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek, "particularly for anyone who gets a thrill out of documentaries about process…. [D]uring the course of it,...
- 9/4/2011
- MUBI
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