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Written by James M. Tate / 4/05/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , bruce dern , cliff potts , douglas trumbull , jesse vint , ron rifkin , science-fiction , seventies , thriller

BRUCE DERN SURVIVING DOUGLAS TRUMBULL'S 'SILENT RUNNING'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxcReodThzhLfUzQddPIHehV8WY4MZzzy_FMyGSWhX8x5SkBwchJiyL_UvfnaYrXZCe2YPWfZ9ovqI85JauuRbb6seXVmKKqO7INW8WnxcTPARlrra7NyPKka7G3hb-qdXejS6Da6hI-l0tOS4gQvv3oJ-CW31K2otT-EPiAnyx4cv53QPuwVgIm8osbu/s1508/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxcReodThzhLfUzQddPIHehV8WY4MZzzy_FMyGSWhX8x5SkBwchJiyL_UvfnaYrXZCe2YPWfZ9ovqI85JauuRbb6seXVmKKqO7INW8WnxcTPARlrra7NyPKka7G3hb-qdXejS6Da6hI-l0tOS4gQvv3oJ-CW31K2otT-EPiAnyx4cv53QPuwVgIm8osbu/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Dern in SILENT RUNNING Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Science-Fiction Special Effects wizard Douglas Trumbull went from making Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY look both futuristic and prehistoric while his own directorial SILENT RUNNING starts at the same planet the first winds up, Jupiter... while back on Earth, it's learned that life sustains not only without forests, but doesn't seem to need any...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which goes against Bruce Dern's sole mission, despite literally sharing space with three other astronauts... who eventually get orders to send vessel-carrying forest domes into nuclear annihilation so they can finally return home: until Dern's Freeman Lowell decides to kill off his human cohorts to save one last portion of tangible nature... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bruce dern, cliff potts, douglas trumbull, jesse vint, ron rifkin, science-fiction, seventies, thriller

BRUCE DERN SURVIVING DOUGLAS TRUMBULL'S 'SILENT RUNNING'

Bruce Dern in SILENT RUNNING Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Science-Fiction Special Effects wizard Douglas Trumbull went from making Stanley Kub...

BRUCE DERN WITH MARTHE KELLER & ROBERT SHAW 'BLACK SUNDAY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mSSFPpkSzNP5KYwFDm7JXAMiXGKxIGfv6du4RqqOAAa_Y6luRkRCTKpwE7xz9yzoX-K6YUYnsiyO_vHrjt7FX341IXJuyRCkC4e_1vH7b2b7TEKOotlwdwfjP0zp5GJqFORZAkhPrHFUBezJkABE4LGKJ6oLTyjlz4SpwgivIz2CL1kSP3qdSJhm5h-Y/s2296/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-08%20at%205.52.06%20PM%202-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="2296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mSSFPpkSzNP5KYwFDm7JXAMiXGKxIGfv6du4RqqOAAa_Y6luRkRCTKpwE7xz9yzoX-K6YUYnsiyO_vHrjt7FX341IXJuyRCkC4e_1vH7b2b7TEKOotlwdwfjP0zp5GJqFORZAkhPrHFUBezJkABE4LGKJ6oLTyjlz4SpwgivIz2CL1kSP3qdSJhm5h-Y/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-08%20at%205.52.06%20PM%202-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Dern in BLACK SUNDAY Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the peak of Bruce Dern's 1970's career playing insane, frantic characters, Palestinian terrorist Marthe Keller cautiously asks if he has a deadly contraption (that shoots tiny shards upon explosion) ready as Dern quickly answers, finishing what he thinks she was really getting to, "Do I feel CRAZY today?" </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>She's the perfectly patient black-widow moll to Dern's off-kilter Vietnam vet, who flies the Goodyear blimp over football games and will soon work the targeted Super Bowl... while on the heroic side is another contrary team-up in Robert Shaw's brooding yet effectively lethal Israeli commando with edgy, bickering sidekick Steven Keats...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bruce dern, fritz weaver, john frankenheimer, marthe keller, michael v. gazzo, robert shaw, seventies, steven keats, walter gotell

BRUCE DERN WITH MARTHE KELLER & ROBERT SHAW 'BLACK SUNDAY'

Bruce Dern in BLACK SUNDAY Year: 1977 Rating: **** At the peak of Bruce Dern's 1970's career playing insane, frantic characters, Pal...

BEFORE 'EASY RIDER' WAS ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WILD ANGELS'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIPPjT5bA4XIzjPkGrrYjbWRbA8pWVIeuukvG4xQdzGP6dIeoYjNk69Bve9R_4Qm5RnpTPa-wda6AXNFIbq9Vh0Z5Rt5U2JsLwAzld3RN7nNMHLpPKSIR0iJOu_w7iZYPCng14Bh75U5j6OT0Mkf6mjEgfgvAFc6nahHi5SZS0ufHmIZWyEhmRtlPMGNr/s2018/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-12%20at%207.52.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="2018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIPPjT5bA4XIzjPkGrrYjbWRbA8pWVIeuukvG4xQdzGP6dIeoYjNk69Bve9R_4Qm5RnpTPa-wda6AXNFIbq9Vh0Z5Rt5U2JsLwAzld3RN7nNMHLpPKSIR0iJOu_w7iZYPCng14Bh75U5j6OT0Mkf6mjEgfgvAFc6nahHi5SZS0ufHmIZWyEhmRtlPMGNr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-12%20at%207.52.07%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra in THE WILD ANGELS Year: 1966 Rating: **** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's THE WILD ANGELS was the most significant precursor and overall impetus for EASY RIDER even beyond starring this film's star Peter Fonda... herein with born-to-lose <i>Loser</i> Bruce Dern foreshadowing Dennis Hopper as the faithful shaggy sidekick, and — like the 1969 cult classic that changed how studios backed avante-garde, independent directors — supped-up motorcycles were in the forefront... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>As WILD begins with Fonda, his bike parked, aimed at the open road that, soon enough during the opening credits, he's smoothy cruising down, even before his gang — also including Michael J. Pollard, Fonda's love-interest Nancy Sinatra and Dern's scene-stealing fictional and non-fictional wife Diane Ladd — join in on the ride... but only <i>after </i>picking Dern up from a rugged rigging job that coincidentally resembles the EASY RIDER followup FIVE EASY PIECES (with Corman stock-favorite Dick Miller as a bickering boss)... </p><span></span>

action, adventure, biker, bruce dern, counter-culture, diane ladd, dick miller, drama, frank maxwell, hangout, michael j. pollard, nancy sinatra, peter fonda, sixties

BEFORE 'EASY RIDER' WAS ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WILD ANGELS'

Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra in THE WILD ANGELS Year: 1966 Rating: **** Roger Corman's THE WILD ANGELS was the most significant precurs...

BRUCE DERN TAILING RYAN O'NEAL IN WALTER HILL'S 'THE DRIVER'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0AWhdGEPBJXOfLvQraq2Ok17UOIim2ecuwOU61L8nw1hs60poMjxjLuUFqe8b1kYnPZ-kK43P1WyFagTIawmVbLi0rkUlzEIXAAfCzSG5VOc-fR-8IlQpNnQE5bjUSPNTuxnlqqwcHGPaY1zJx3J8hKFaOgwqD_xaK-E3uLTwGzvbOH8iE17RGkOI3hx/s1408/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-24%20at%205.39.53%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1408" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0AWhdGEPBJXOfLvQraq2Ok17UOIim2ecuwOU61L8nw1hs60poMjxjLuUFqe8b1kYnPZ-kK43P1WyFagTIawmVbLi0rkUlzEIXAAfCzSG5VOc-fR-8IlQpNnQE5bjUSPNTuxnlqqwcHGPaY1zJx3J8hKFaOgwqD_xaK-E3uLTwGzvbOH8iE17RGkOI3hx/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-24%20at%205.39.53%20PM.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE DRIVER Year: 1978 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>An action vehicle but not entirely, Walter Hill's THE DRIVER is more a meticulous, character-driven Neo Noir than rollercoaster ride: This includes a brooding Ryan O'Neal as a getaway DRIVER sought after by a determined cop played by not only scene but<i> entire film-stealing</i> Bruce Dern as... The Detective...<br>
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Scenes when Dern questions her or THE DRIVER or a more honest detective in Matt Clark are even better than the chase scenes: Which, of course, directed by future WARRIORS and SOUTHERN COMFORT icon Walter Hill, are topnotch suspenseful and easy to follow – either dodging police prowlers or one of the bad guys who winds up after the titular bad guy we're rooting for. And the most intense screeching tires occur as THE DRIVER shows his stuff inside a parking garage, with no one chasing behind: deliberate car-porn at its finest.<br>

action, bruce dern, car, crime, edward walsh, felice orlandi, getaway driver, isabelle adjani, matt clark, neo noir, rudy ramos, ryan o'neal, seventies, suspense, thriller, twilight time, walter hill

BRUCE DERN TAILING RYAN O'NEAL IN WALTER HILL'S 'THE DRIVER'

Title: THE DRIVER Year: 1978 Rates: **** An action vehicle but not entirely, Walter Hill's THE DRIVER is more a meticulous, character-dr...

REVIEW CRUISING THROUGH 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierViQkA7CjN-ie-R-rUPHjZaU9AYiDXojRL_rxStIspYAGyzZoAtP309hQ0GIiAIZz4qn1g0NtdZIhfTn5FDxxnJNhyPr9doMjUDondR5hmsIF2tdlliDDekfLv_KdRq6krqMynuUzShQ2qIMbciZSoxncwwR2QTzw_ruDy_iBGBqkguUx-m9fMsccqz9/s2048/brighter.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierViQkA7CjN-ie-R-rUPHjZaU9AYiDXojRL_rxStIspYAGyzZoAtP309hQ0GIiAIZz4qn1g0NtdZIhfTn5FDxxnJNhyPr9doMjUDondR5hmsIF2tdlliDDekfLv_KdRq6krqMynuUzShQ2qIMbciZSoxncwwR2QTzw_ruDy_iBGBqkguUx-m9fMsccqz9/s16000/brighter.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Make an important note while <i>experiencing</i> Quentin Tarantino's entirely different kind of revisionist-history revenge picture: It not only centers around real life counter-culture figures Sharon Tate; Charles Manson and Family (including main slayer Tex Watson and skanky moll Squeaky Fromme); a love-lorn Steve McQueen; a rich, contented Roman Polanski; and pixie hairstylist Jay Sebring... <br>
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There's also the last of the victims, Donald "Shorty" Shea, a would-be stuntman who thought the hippie horde was taking advantage of his friend/employer George Spahn at the formerly-active Spahn Movie Ranch: the infamous location where Manson and his followers made their very own drug-fueled, Beatles-blaring, conspiracy-plotting, paranoiac playground, ultimately setting stage for the "Helter Skelter Murders" that infamously included an eight-month pregnant Tate...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

2019, al pacino, brad pitt, bruce dern, counter-culture, dark comedy, exploitation, hangout, hollywood satire, leonardo dicaprio, madisen beaty, margot robie, new, quentin tarantino, thriller

REVIEW CRUISING THROUGH 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD'

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Rating: **** Make an important note while experiencing Quentin Tarantino...

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADuYZIywSyw6eT4Z89zbHZ5WMsyIaTMTiMtIbfuodxfo1kw84Ym6sl6e9MeLHn9GwFeNiL2JNb7c2z2sYyXVKq2qyU_w-jp-KtgRscENa-HpEC4W6ikFNR19pCo8J9Wr-Mb_iMZF6hDsSC3hSNHSBNBEx0VhfYUt_DoBOMq-TMGiRxZsGKeuJcjg7CbVb/s1985/Screen+Shot+2021-09-26+at+4.57.44+PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1075" data-original-width="1985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADuYZIywSyw6eT4Z89zbHZ5WMsyIaTMTiMtIbfuodxfo1kw84Ym6sl6e9MeLHn9GwFeNiL2JNb7c2z2sYyXVKq2qyU_w-jp-KtgRscENa-HpEC4W6ikFNR19pCo8J9Wr-Mb_iMZF6hDsSC3hSNHSBNBEx0VhfYUt_DoBOMq-TMGiRxZsGKeuJcjg7CbVb/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-09-26+at+4.57.44+PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Maybe directors never really outgrow their film school mindset: And in 
that, following what would forever remain their collaborative pinnacle, 
FIVE EASY PIECES director Bob Rafelson gave his close friend Jack Nicholson a break from the stereotype
 of being the feisty rebel type, here a meek Philly-dwelling radio host of melancholy monologues...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then again maybe 
he should have played Bruce Dern's conniving con-man older brother Jason
 Staebler, on the stumbling verge of an Atlantic City land deal with a 
few obstacles including a potentially dangerous kingpin (Nicholson's 
three picture co-star, Scatman Crothers) and especially his women...<br></p><span></span>

bob rafelson, bruce dern, crime, cult, ellen burstyn, gambling, indie, jack nicholson, julia anne robinson, neo noir, scatman crothers, seventies, thriller

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Rating: *** Maybe directors never really outgrow their film school mi...

JAMES GARNER IN 'SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF' W/ BRUCE DERN

action, bruce dern, comedy, harry morgan, jack elam, james garner, joan hackett, sixties, western

JAMES GARNER IN 'SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF' W/ BRUCE DERN

James Garner, Bruce Dern and Jack Elam YEAR: 1969 In the part of Jason McCullough, supposedly on his way to Australia where the Wild W...

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s1549/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVB-owo9AFIwj1DMoKoiNrPRNIhUvQaVeKMcMoFDoUb6uQXi1dO_QVaRZ8QGBFPiF5LQCN0JQjcAcqdKJ2eDfa5L0kU0EQxKtioWLKzjcY-IIoOL8D_6wrX5cI2SdWlxhxxnqfS3a1tt2vwgVujDDpMKygT0tSJEesYWuar3E9GNVosOQQ_33UzDQ7HWW0/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fransisco, 
happens upon members of a hopeful rock band consisting of a completely miscast Jack
 Nicholson and Adam Roarke, looking more like blue collar roughnecks 
than guitar-slinging hippies, and Max Julien, far more aligned with the 
drugged-out, passive aesthetic...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Other young future-classic actors include Bruce Dern 
as Strasberg's troubled brother, the movie's McGuffin that little sister's seeking, fitfully named The 
Seeker, and Dean Stockwell as a "wise" hippie, reminding Jack, who wants
 his group to make it big, how shallow money and success are...</p><p><span></span></p>

adam roarke, bruce dern, dean stockwell, drug culture, garry marshall, gary kent, henry jaglom, jack nicholson, max julien, richard rush, sixties, susan strasberg

JACK NICHOLSON PEAKS WITH SUSAN STRASBERG IN 'PSYCH-OUT'

Jack Nicholson and Susan Strasberg in PSYCH-OUT Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 In 1968, Susan Strasberg, a passive deaf girl hiding out in San Fr...

MATT DILLON SHOOTS CRAP IN 'THE BIG TOWN' WITH DIANE LANE

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 each and every time, giving the movie a sort of unintentional TWILIGHT 
ZONE science-fiction vibe, or something delving into fantasy... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And for a vehicle so 
otherwise grounded and somewhat cliche, predictable and even mainstream, that's alright since Matt's
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 the pool of gambling hoodlum sharks who, from Tommy Lee Jones as an underground backroom
 dealer to a mysterious backstory Tom Skerritt, are out to (or seem out to) stop the endless and 
bizarre winning streak...</p><span></span>

ben bolt, bruce dern, diane lane, drama, eighties, fifties-era, gambling, lee grant, matt dillon, neo noir, thriller, tommy lee jones

MATT DILLON SHOOTS CRAP IN 'THE BIG TOWN' WITH DIANE LANE

Diane Lane in THE BIG TOWN Year: 1987 Rating: ***1/2 With a deliberately sparse-pulpy title, THE BIG TOWN is set during the 1950's... 19...

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

arthouse, bob rafelson, bruce dern, drama, ellen burstyn, indie, jack nicholson, scatman crothers, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON 'THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS' BRUCE DERN

Jack Nicholson in THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS Year: 1972 Who knows, maybe directors never really outgrow their primal, rudimentary, sym...

JACK NICHOLSON'S COUNTER-CULTURE DIRECTED 'DRIVE, HE SAID'

bruce dern, cindy williams, drug culture, jack nicholson, june fairchild, karen black, michael warren, seventies, william tepper

JACK NICHOLSON'S COUNTER-CULTURE DIRECTED 'DRIVE, HE SAID'

Cult starlet June Fairchild as a cheerleader/hippie student in Jack Nicholson's DRIVE, HE SAID Year: 1971 As most people know, Jack...

KAREN BLACK RELECTS ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE GREAT GATSBY

alfred hitchcock, bruce dern, interview, karen black, karen black interviews, quentin tarantino, seventies, thriller

KAREN BLACK RELECTS ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE GREAT GATSBY

Karen Black on Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of Family Plot You starred in FAMILY PLOT with Bruce Dern... This was the last film ...

PROANTAGONIST: THE ECLECTIC NEO NOIR OF MATT DILLON

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<u>THE RUMBLING OUTSIDER</u>: Matt Dillon as the kind of face that seems perfectly suited for Black & White, even in color...
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For example, when he looks into the hospital mirror during the riskiest of many risky heists in DRUGSTORE COWBOY, his slick black hair contrasts dramatically to pale white skin and then, with the turn of his head, the blood red along his forehead accents the fevered heat of the moment... The sudden contrast is reminiscent of the actual Chinese fighter fish i.e. RUMBLE FISH, the only colored objects (red) in an otherwise completely B&W film, steals the picture in Coppola's first of the two S.E. Hinton collaborations beginning with THE OUTSIDERS as the James Dean/Marlon Brando hybrid: A rogue rebel completely idolized by the two young central characters played by C. Thomas Howell and Ralph Macchio... But to everyone beyond the gang, being a outright criminal as well as a charmer, if anyone of the cast of future teen heartthrobs (including Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze) makes this otherwise teen gang melodrama, it's his character, Dallas Winston, who, unlike his ambitious RUMBLE FISH little brother character, Rusty James, doesn't want to be a leader <i>or</i> a follower...<br>
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And, behind the scenes according to the Coppola commentary track of THE OUTSIDERS; while it took days, even weeks, for some of the other actors to be cast, Dillon walked in and got the job right away (both RUMBLE FISH and OUTSIDERS will be reviewed on their own territory with an upcoming "Coppola Does Hinton, Twice"). The former OVER THE EDGE "post child actor" was fourteen in his first role in 1979 where his bike riding, chain smoking Ritchie White is the Dallas Winston of the suburban outskirts, again leading the underdogs (whether he's present or not) to victory. But it was MY BODYGUARD the following year that proved Dillon could really act, and it took the second Coppola/Hinton flick to underline that fact...<br>

andrew mccarthy, bruce dern, charles bukowski, diane lane, eighties, francis ford coppola, harry northup, matt dillon, neo noir, nineties, remake, retrospective, seventies, suspense, tens, thriller, zeroes

PROANTAGONIST: THE ECLECTIC NEO NOIR OF MATT DILLON

Matt Dillon in the Noir remake A KISS BEFORE DYING THE RUMBLING OUTSIDER : Matt Dillon as the kind of face that seems perfectly suited...

JAMES GARNER RETURNS IN 'SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER'

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<u>SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER</u>: Whew, that was close... A close call... For when a great thing is ruined by trying to continue it, especially when the original, through exposition by Jack Elam, has the character's futures all mapped out till the grave, it would be tough to make a sequel to SHERIFF keeping the same leading man in James Garner but with a different woman; this time Garner plays a rambling con-man the likes of his MAVERICK persona whose name is Latigo...<br />
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He gets off a train in the town of Purgatory, on the verge of a gold boom, or something, and Jack Elam is a sloppy fella working around horses, again, while Harry Morgan's gun-blasting daughter is tough right outta the box, played by Suzanne Pleshette as Patience, wherein the last ingenue was named Prudy, and Burt Kennedy is the writer/producer still... guess this is a RUNAWAY BRIDE type of sequel... but why mention something so awful?<br />
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And yet, alas, GUNFIGHTER isn't too great a ride unlike the nearly perfect SHERIFF. Garner's character has a few more layers than the no-nonsense lucky one-tick pony, but seems to be lazily revisiting his far more likable con artist from television yesterday...<br />
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And there's an overall plot to be had, somewhere, about two different groups of miners, between the town, involved in a two-year war on who gets to the gold first. And instead of being on the way to Australia, reluctantly taking the job... this time, of a Gunfighter... Garner's excuse is he's waiting three days for the local doctor to remove a tattoo of a woman's... an old woman's... name on his chest: horrible writing at its best, or worst. Not that GUNFIGHTER is the bottom of the barrel fare, but with dialogue that goes in circles before catching onto something, anything, that can provide a worthwhile little story, or even a scene worth watching, it all plays out like a TV movie that wouldn't have made it past the green-light stage if it weren't for the predecessor – the only reason why to buy the Twilight Time double-feature in the first place.<br />
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bruce dern, comedy, double-feature, harry morgan, jack elam, james garner, seventies, sixties, western

JAMES GARNER RETURNS IN 'SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER'

Twilight Time Double BluRay SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER : Whew, that was close... A close call... For when a great thing is ruined by ...

Written by James M. Tate / 12/30/2015 / No comments / bruce dern , ensemble , jennifer jason leigh , michael madsen , mystery , quentin tarantino , samuel l. jackson , tim roth , walt goggins , western

QUENTIN TARANTINO'S WESTERN ENSEMBLE 'THE HATEFUL EIGHT'

bruce dern, ensemble, jennifer jason leigh, michael madsen, mystery, quentin tarantino, samuel l. jackson, tim roth, walt goggins, western

QUENTIN TARANTINO'S WESTERN ENSEMBLE 'THE HATEFUL EIGHT'

year: 2015 cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Walt Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leight director: Quentin Tarantino Will attempt not to sp...

THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT

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The strangest thing about the THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT... overshadowed by the following year's blaxploitation camp classic THE THING WITH TWO HEADS wherein football titan Rosey Grier and once Oscar-winning Ray Milland shared the larger guy's body... is that Bruce Dern, famous for playing crazy to the hilt, is, as a bonafide Mad Scientist, extremely subdued: Rarely has the actor been so calm, cool and collected.<br />
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Meanwhile, with sexy wife (and MUNSTERS babe) Pat Priest yearning for affection, Dern's Roger is just too busy trying to morph his bizarre experiment from animals to human. And everything connects in the middle from what occurred during a violent pre-credit prologue: a low-rent Warren Oates lookalike playing a psychopath is sentenced to the loony bin, eventually escapes and, after attacking the lovely blonde ingenue residing at a rural ranch/institute (our central location), he's shot, wounded and "secretly" captured by Dern and his scientist partner: thus the killer's head is transplanted onto a faithful, gigantic and sporadically reckless OF MICE AND MEN style village idiot/gardener's son, who, after dad's added to the body count, has no reason to live a normal life, so why not place a second noggin to consummate the perpetually labored, groundbreaking experiment?<br />
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Here's where the film really takes off as the human creature, literally headed by the killer controlling the bodily strength of this once gentle giant, battles Nazi bikers (the toughest played by personal friend, cult actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/gary-kent-retrospective.html">Gary Kent</a>) while seeking out the kind of raging, raping and recklessly pillaging havoc that makes all things exploitation, exploitation.<br />
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And, as noted earlier, while hardly as memorable or iconic as THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (which had a corny yet genuine racial/social message), TRANSPLANT wields the kind of pointlessly awesome drive-in flavor where anything can happen; and most of it does. Added to that, our eventual savior/hero is none other than Casey Kasem as a normal (as opposed to neurotic) doctor, also providing radio voice-overs as the characters, along with the audience, are given necessary exposition between bloody bouts: Making Kasem another "two-headed" entity, only not as incredible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the eclectic casting of Bruce Dern and the equally yet differently iconic Casey Kasem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's where Cult Film Freak's friend <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/08/satans-sadists.html">Gary Kent </a>battles the 2-Headed beast run amok</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wide shot of the fight between real life <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/11/the-hard-road.html">stuntman/actor Gary Kent </a>vs our titular creature creation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Consider inexpensively downloading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Light-Journeys-Revolutionary-Hollywood-ebook/dp/B00C89ONOU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445166765&sr=8-1&keywords=GARY+KENT+SHADOWS">Gary Kent's autobiography</a> on Amazon's Kindle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sorry, Shaggy, I'm all out of Scooby-Snacks... let the bitch eat Alpo."</td></tr>
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berry kroeger, bruce dern, casey kasem, drive-in, exploitation, pat priest, seventies

THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT

1971 camp value: ***1/2 The strangest thing about the THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT... overshadowed by the following year's bla...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/03/2015 / No comments / bruce dern , carrie fisher , horror , joe dante , satire , tom hanks , wendy schaal

JOE DANTE DIRECTS TOM HANKS & CARRIE FISHER IN THE 'BURBS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carrie Fisher and Wendy Schaal YEAR: 1989</u></td></tr>
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Director Joe Dante, no stranger to the world of strange characters in bizarre situations, throws it all into the cinematic pot… including the kitchen sink… serving up THE ‘BURBS starring Tom Hanks during the tail-end of his comedy-only career. As family man Ray Peterson, there’s a REAR WINDOW vibe as our passive, debilitated hero faces a suburban col de sac while one house in particular becomes the prime target for morbid curiosity.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The BurbSCORE: ***</u></td></tr>
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Much of the film has Hanks and chubby instigating neighbor buddy Art, played by GROUNDHOG DAY actor Rick Ducommun, along with Bruce Dern’s Vietnam vet Lt. Mark Rumsfield, his trophy wife Bonnie (Wendy Schaal, pictured above), Carrie Fisher as Ray’s assertive wife Carol, who injects her usual pizazz into what would be a filler role with another actress in an extremely limited/thankless role...<br />
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And last but not least is cool kid Corey Feldman as Ricky trying to figure out what exactly is going on with these mysterious new neighbors, residents of the shabby manor looking a cross between the Bate’s Hotel and Frankenestein’s mansion.
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The best scenes are in the buildup, getting to know the eclectic cast, after which Dante inserts so many “nostalgic” camera tricks, the tail begins wagging the dog. Which is sad since THE ‘BURBS was much better when we didn’t know what (or rather, who) lurked inside the house, making it difficult to tell exactly which specific genre is being parodied – as if the movie were making more fun of itself than any campy predecessor. And in one genuinely frightening image, when Ray witnesses cloaked figures frantically digging holes in the backyard during a lightning storm, there’s potential for the film to stretch beyond all the deliberate homage.

bruce dern, carrie fisher, horror, joe dante, satire, tom hanks, wendy schaal

JOE DANTE DIRECTS TOM HANKS & CARRIE FISHER IN THE 'BURBS

Carrie Fisher and Wendy Schaal YEAR: 1989 Director Joe Dante, no stranger to the world of strange characters in bizarre situations, thro...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/31/2014 / 1 Comment / 2013 , alexander payne , bruce dern , drama , june squibb , rance howard , road movie , stacy keach , will forte

BRUCE DERN & WILL FORTE IN ALEXANDER PAYNE'S 'NEBRASKA'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alexander Payne's directs Bruce Dern and Will Forte in NEBRASKA Year: 2013</u></td></tr>
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Will Forte has an interesting face, his mouth naturally curved to a frown. His character David Grant has very little to celebrate: His girlfriend dumped him and his father Woody, played by veteran actor Bruce Dern, is bent on taking a trip from Montana to NEBRASKA after receiving a Mega Sweepstakes Marketing Prize in the mail...<br />
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Like director Alexander Payne’s SIDEWAYS and ABOUT SCHMIDT, this deadpan odyssey is a “road movie” epitomizing that niche; although most of the time’s spent sidetracked at Woody’s NEBRASKA hometown of Hawthorne...<br />
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This is where most of the story takes place; and his brother (Rance Howard) — and then later on, several brothers — aren’t much different in tone: passive and mundane “men of few words.” But Woody has a destination and the entire town thinks he’s a millionaire already...<br />
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Enter initially subtle antagonist Stacy Keach who, like Dern himself, is known for and reveled in edgy, borderline insane guy roles during the 1970’s and 1980s… His laidback yet investigative Ed Pegram also likes to drink and hang around the local tavern, and now there’s an agenda — he wants a payoff and Woody’s family wants some too; particularly two fat oddball nephews straight out of the Coen Brothers' quirky universe.<br />
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In a story replete with intentionally sparse characters, June Squibb is the obvious audience-favorite (perhaps <i>too</i> obvious, forced) as Woody’s sarcastic, foul-mouthed, hen-pecking wife Kate, stealing scenes mostly because she has the funniest lines, and is a breath of fresh air from the monotone surrounding her presence...<br />
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In fact, NEBRASKA often feels like an extremely subtle art film satire, while the plush yet primitive B&W cinematography turns the titular state into a rustic hybrid of paradise and purgatory… Some of the best scenes are the scenery, taking place <i>outside</i> Woody's passenger seat window...<br />
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In Will Forte's case, he initially doesn't seem up to the job (his successful brother's played by Bob Odenkirk and might've fared better)... A comedy actor, his deadpan often seems somewhat reached for instead of naturally holding back...<br />
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But (after a recommended second, third or fourth viewings) once you realize his fourth fiddle status to the location, and the overall journey, and especially to his father... it becomes more clear...<br />
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Forte's an awkward yet ultimately wise choice opposite Dern, existing <i>beneath</i> the father's jangily rhythm instead of playing loggerhead to his unnerving, unapologetic neurosis. His David Grant seems to have given up long ago; and despite being the driver on this trip, he’s merely along for the ride.<br />
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Meanwhile, the “man of the hour,” Bruce Dern (nominated for an Oscar) seems almost too authentic. The sporadic dialogue and a few blunt moments of passion aside, his expressions are what really matter…<br />
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Old Woody's a man who's kept everything inside while traces of a buried life seep out from his gently confused, timeworn face, painfully etched with age and mileage but not without a faint glimmer of hope, no matter how unavailing and desperately futile: therein lies the mystery and adventure of Alexander Payne's NEBRASKA.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Missy Dotty in NEBRASKA who had played Cammi the Waitress in Payne's SIDEWAYS</u></td></tr>
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<i><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u>MISSY DOTTY</u>: Working with Alexander is a dream for any actor... because he's an actor's director...</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span">And what I mean by that is he lets you do your work and gently guides you so that he can let the camera discover the character as it comes to life... </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Much like an audience member watching the characters come to life on screen.</span> </span> </span></i>
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<i><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Working on SIDEWAYS was so much fun... the whole crew, production team, cast... we all felt like family. And it's highly known that Alexander is loyal to anyone who works with him, so walking onto the set of NEBRASKA, it was like coming home... Comfortable and welcoming.</span></span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Missy Dotty as Cammi in Sideways turned black and white so to fit the non-color scheme of Nebraska</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>And Alexander Payne himself (resembling Richard Gere's kangaroo) directing Bruce Dern for Nebraska</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Dern and Will Forte as father and son in Alexander Payne's NEBRASKA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Dern plays father to Will Forte as son in Alexander Payne's NEBRASKA Year: 2013</u></td></tr>
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