GENE HACKMAN MINING THROUGH NICOLAS ROAG'S 'EUREKA'

<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/AVvXsEiCRfM7Ghj5zLUvUYIqIUKoAsAs8vExn4gmt3QfjjJP-LLP-5l9fhSRfcHcHWLIVxtHTIwSMDD2M-W0ogvEwCWZ_uBMs_J2jfGiY1nqxDHLFdeii6cASgCnaDb4mfJEhbzY53CW3JzUfqVrl99cmeulEvNCo98mHJW5pgGE096wd7ZNfqmt0JT6YBfu_E1e/s1036/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-01%20at%2010.15.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="1036" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRfM7Ghj5zLUvUYIqIUKoAsAs8vExn4gmt3QfjjJP-LLP-5l9fhSRfcHcHWLIVxtHTIwSMDD2M-W0ogvEwCWZ_uBMs_J2jfGiY1nqxDHLFdeii6cASgCnaDb4mfJEhbzY53CW3JzUfqVrl99cmeulEvNCo98mHJW5pgGE096wd7ZNfqmt0JT6YBfu_E1e/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-01%20at%2010.15.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gene Hackman in EUREKA Year: 1983 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following the game-changing THE FRENCH CONNECTION turning 2nd-lead and/or villain-role character-actor Gene Hackman into a leading man/movie star, he did two independent art-films, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/02/scarecrow.html">Jerry Schatzberg's SCARECROW</a> and Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION that, because of their underpar box office (albeit both being critically praised), he swore to only mainstream movies thereafter...<br><br>But after THE FRENCH CONNECTION sequel, a few action thrillers and two SUPERMAN blockbusters, he went back to low-budget basics with the most offbeat auteur of them all, Nicolas Roeg, for a deliberately dismal melodrama EUREKA where the best scenes exist in the relatively short-lived first act: when Gene Hackman as solitary yet formidable minor Jack McCann (when not frequenting a brothel with FIVE EASY PIECES rambling-actress Helena Kallianiotes) has put everything into one lucrative gold strike...</p><p><span></span></p>

ed lauter, eighties, gene hackman, helena kallianiotes, indie, joe pesci, mickey rourke, nicolas roeg, rutger hauer, theresa russell

GENE HACKMAN MINING THROUGH NICOLAS ROAG'S 'EUREKA'

Gene Hackman in EUREKA Year: 1983 Rating: **1/2 Following the game-changing THE FRENCH CONNECTION turning 2nd-lead and/or villain-role chara...

NICOLAS ROEG CHEATING DEATH IN VIENNA WITH 'BAD TIMING'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhons2eMv0yJ4paziEEwfNgt9anCdfWFfeA39ujYK7OAx2nnoRrx8AGhk5XYsCCWQW1_YIcp1vO9SFYkhaYa7tkRkspLIDEM-TO808oh_KvG5Ef82ekhNC_PedK5rpg5wWnM2gDG_zj85mB/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-05-06+at+5.26.02+AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="1556" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhons2eMv0yJ4paziEEwfNgt9anCdfWFfeA39ujYK7OAx2nnoRrx8AGhk5XYsCCWQW1_YIcp1vO9SFYkhaYa7tkRkspLIDEM-TO808oh_KvG5Ef82ekhNC_PedK5rpg5wWnM2gDG_zj85mB/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-05-06+at+5.26.02+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></i></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Theresa Russell playing a color test book in BAD TIMING</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>The cinematic equivalent of a girl that's <i>just no good</i> or a "no good dame" is usually one who's simply <i>too good to be true</i>. And when a loose, liberal young lady from America — in the usually idyllic dreamland of Vienna — hooks up with a loose yet intellectual American professor who thinks he's more liberal-minded than he actually is, things go from... well in this case, worse to better to pretty bad to pretty good to downright awful... for her, that is...<br> <br> Initially taking place at a hospital emergency room where Theresa Russell's Milena is being kept alive by desperate surgeons, BAD TIMING consists of flashbacks concerning her doomed romance with leading man Art Garfunkel as Alex. The most intriguing aspect of Nicolas Roeg's comparably obscure motion picture is how a dying Milena is edited into sporadic bouts of love-making, laughter, arguments, more love-making, tantrums, aspersions, more tantrums, wandering through Vienna and even a quick road trip along desert terrain, like where the late auteur shaped his future assisting David Lean on a little excursion titled LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before carving-out his own desolate territory for WALKABOUT...<br> <br>

art garfunkel, cop, crime, denholm elliott, eighties, harvey keitel, neo noir, nicolas roeg, theresa russell, thriller

NICOLAS ROEG CHEATING DEATH IN VIENNA WITH 'BAD TIMING'

Theresa Russell playing a color test book in BAD TIMING The cinematic equivalent of a girl that's just no good or a "no good da...

NEO FILM NOIR AUTEUR BOB RAFELSON DIRECTS 'BLACK WIDOW'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszenvi3xsHxdHlNq3EJF2hoVM2nxD6Uj2v9NFNxx91AsHAlv75QI0lS77BEw3AR0q-h9xxqIYQwx-bsO3MzM11Qz7RLwG31cOKdC40Eo1B3TsiShEGXoUK388YgwxxEdRG3mVQWTAsOY/s1600/13165997_10209622933192564_6907224527933408201_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszenvi3xsHxdHlNq3EJF2hoVM2nxD6Uj2v9NFNxx91AsHAlv75QI0lS77BEw3AR0q-h9xxqIYQwx-bsO3MzM11Qz7RLwG31cOKdC40Eo1B3TsiShEGXoUK388YgwxxEdRG3mVQWTAsOY/s1600/13165997_10209622933192564_6907224527933408201_n.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Theresa Russell is the title character in BLACK WIDOW along with Debra Winger and Dennis Hopper Year: 1987</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Bob Rafelson, best known for his collaborations with Jack Nicholson dating back to the 1960's before one was an extremely popular actor and the other was a worthy director, beginning before the A-list catapult with HEAD starring The Monkees, written by the struggling Jack and directed by Bob and followed by a motion picture that, after director Dennis Hopper replaced Rip Torn with Nicholson in EASY RIDER, made Jack a star followed by FIVE EASY PIECES that, as with another Bob collaboration, KING OF MARVIN GARDENS, wasn't without a touch of Film Noir...<br>

bob rafelson, debra winger, dennis hopper, diane ladd, eighties, neo noir, rutanya alda, theresa russell

NEO FILM NOIR AUTEUR BOB RAFELSON DIRECTS 'BLACK WIDOW'

Theresa Russell is the title character in BLACK WIDOW along with Debra Winger and Dennis Hopper Year: 1987 Bob Rafelson, best known for ...

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7PVcQGX08FJ9YC6yPXFafZhmy2r2ZqOUfaA70_HUND4Gd8C0udrQHBPlJ9saHTDdmy3aIckE6yqGEtwn-sFsNySizWR88ASadwyhVVsujGU9QO5UEd9SdXva4Fk9d4mtja-nDvL3p98/s1600/physevid.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586401699077984946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7PVcQGX08FJ9YC6yPXFafZhmy2r2ZqOUfaA70_HUND4Gd8C0udrQHBPlJ9saHTDdmy3aIckE6yqGEtwn-sFsNySizWR88ASadwyhVVsujGU9QO5UEd9SdXva4Fk9d4mtja-nDvL3p98/s200/physevid.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 197px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title: </span>PHYSICAL EVIDENCE<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 1989<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Beatty</span>, Ted McKinley<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> **1/2<br /><br />Burt Reynolds is a good cop that seems so guilty, he simply can't be... can he? It's up to climber D.A. Theresa Russell to find who killed an unpopular snitch all the cops despise, especially Reynolds, who'd not only threatened this man, but taped it. Like Hitchcock's FRENZY, the protagonist seems guiltier and guiltier because of his own mistakes and miscalculations. So while Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Crichton</span>'s a master novelist, his directorial career is pretty good: but this one's merely average. And Russell, who's great in STRAIGHT TIME and BLACK WIDOW, gives one of the worst, and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">unintentionally</span> hilarious, performances of all time. But Burt holds it together, as does fellow DELIVERANCE alumni Ned <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Beatty</span> as the prosecuting <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">attorney</span> with a much too easy gig.

action, burt reynolds, cop, crime, eighties, michael crichton, ned beatty, theresa russell

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

title: PHYSICAL EVIDENCE year: 1989 cast: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty , Ted McKinley rating: **1/2 Burt Reynolds is a good...

BLACK WIDOW

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgagarryCi9QPkfNcO2kGwcfw4cX1WXtGnUK7JxzHlysJUHM2kxVuWgSfZ0fk-37PlmOaCaDc2gJcghXO1NAMQpk4QR88eS_gkiVCVPltm0FciES_7k1ZlWj8XE_v4QZy44VrsyuTEvo8o/s1600/blackwidow111.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585160472848218978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgagarryCi9QPkfNcO2kGwcfw4cX1WXtGnUK7JxzHlysJUHM2kxVuWgSfZ0fk-37PlmOaCaDc2gJcghXO1NAMQpk4QR88eS_gkiVCVPltm0FciES_7k1ZlWj8XE_v4QZy44VrsyuTEvo8o/s200/blackwidow111.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 136px;" /></a><b>title:</b> BLACK WIDOW<br /><div><div><b>year:</b> 1987</div><div><b>cast:</b> Debra Winger, Theresa, Russell, Dennis Hopper, Terry O'Quinn<br /></div><div><b>rating:</b> ***1/2</div><br /><div>Bob Raefelson's stylish 80's Film Noir has Debra Winger as a federal agent with a dull job, till she realizes how many millionaires are dying of sudden "accidental heart attacks": all over forty and married to young brides. Turns out there's only one bride in the form of gorgeous Theresa Russell, intricately wielding each distinct murder (hubbies include Dennis Hopper and Nicol Williamson) with Winger on her trail: then colliding in the third act as both leads meet in Hawaii, where spider's found a new, and very sympathetic, fly. An underrated yarn, using key elements of Noir and (more  specifically) Hitchcock, never loses sight of how fun it is to root for the villain. </div></div>

debra winger, dennis hopper, eighties, james hong, neo noir, suspense, terry o'quinn, theresa russell

BLACK WIDOW

title: BLACK WIDOW year: 1987 cast: Debra Winger, Theresa, Russell, Dennis Hopper, Terry O'Quinn rating: ***1/2 Bob Raefelson's ...