Yes, it’s playing in NYC. Brutal film, very effective, shot on location in bleakly beautiful Tierra del Fuego. Packs a lot into 97 minutes. (A lot of it is in English BTW.)
Legrand blamed Barbra Streisand, who delayed him on Yentl. (Which he ultimately won two Oscars for.) He was an odd choice but his action scoring for Ice Station Zebra is excellent.
She went toe-to-toe with Sean Connery in Outland; great performance. And I saw her onstage a few times, including Edward Albee’s Seascape, her last Broadway show.
"I can't say for certain, but I'm fairly sure there aren't many people who, on their deathbed say "I wish I'd streamed more".
LOL to that! Happy trails, be well. (A sentiment I extend to all on HTF.)
The Archive only released THE SORCERERS as a MOD disc in the US. The Blu-ray editions are European. (I reviewed the MOD discs of it and 5 FINGERS for the website of Cineaste magazine years ago.)
It's terrible but there is that hilarious group sex scene where one of the male participants pulls out a stuffed pheasant to show to his bedmates, wagging its tail feathers at the camera. Quite an arcane mating ritual, that.
It’s better than The Stewardesses, with just a handful of scenes in the prison (including the shower, natch) and a few guffaws (SCTV-type 3D but in actual 3D, of the “have an ashtray” variety, and a scene where a guy interrupts a four-way sexual encounter to shove a stuffed pheasant’s tail...
I love the scene he and Ed Harris share in Glengarry Glen Ross. He’s also really great in an indie, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing—but he was outstanding in everything. And he directed the dark and brilliant Little Murders, playing a role in that too.
What a great event it was in NYC! So much fun with my son in attendance and the Archive gang pulling out all the stops. A sensational way to celebrate Ro-man’s NYC theatrical premiere 70 years to the day after it opened in LA!
Between Prison Girls on Blu and Robot Monster in its NYC theatrical premiere exactly 70 years after its LA debut it’s been a 3-D Film Archive weekend for me and I am loving it! The former was a little better than I expected (better than The Stewardesses anyway) and the latter—just great fun with...