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Written by James M. Tate / 11/17/2024 / No comments / beau bridges , beverly d'angelo , comedy , deborah rush , howard hesseman , hume cronyn , jessica tandy , john schlesinger , road movie , teri garr

RUSHING THROUGH JOHN SCHLESINGER'S 'HONKY TONK FREEWAY'

<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/AVvXsEiaX9xJ39a3JdrTj4Jji1T_bdXGvfXxEEjSaYgzK12-y1LTvtqkE3lNyPWtaIspDDYUFqU-7bmfkpLp7fO1_wFlNh3IX6QY9mlRseQO9NZvu4tOQqjAm_8k7mo0YE0JxMG_gXjJvUu-MaW4rxEA42UjyPh4Gb_AJ9xtOZ700LHxd0Q3K6-0JDxIU9u9X3WH/s1280/maxresdefault%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaX9xJ39a3JdrTj4Jji1T_bdXGvfXxEEjSaYgzK12-y1LTvtqkE3lNyPWtaIspDDYUFqU-7bmfkpLp7fO1_wFlNh3IX6QY9mlRseQO9NZvu4tOQqjAm_8k7mo0YE0JxMG_gXjJvUu-MaW4rxEA42UjyPh4Gb_AJ9xtOZ700LHxd0Q3K6-0JDxIU9u9X3WH/s16000/maxresdefault%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HONKY TONK FREEWAY Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>John Schlesinger's HONKY TONK FREEWAY has two composers: Elmer Bernstein doing his usual triumphant march while Beatles producer George Martin's melancholy interludes are thrown in randomly for an offbeat cross-country road-movie with everything...<br><br>And while known for having cost and lost tons of money, FREEWAY is both a fast-moving adventure and witty ensemble-comedy with only a few central characters representing both points on the map...</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><span></span></p>

beau bridges, beverly d'angelo, comedy, deborah rush, howard hesseman, hume cronyn, jessica tandy, john schlesinger, road movie, teri garr

RUSHING THROUGH JOHN SCHLESINGER'S 'HONKY TONK FREEWAY'

Title: HONKY TONK FREEWAY Year: 1981 Rating: **** John Schlesinger's HONKY TONK FREEWAY has two composers: Elmer Bernstein doing his usu...

MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTS GRIFFIN DUNNE IN 'AFTER HOURS'

<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/AVvXsEhuB4chR4uO-lbcYpzyVUaV2hdSr3V986SmUKcMp9bDZiOMFZadCcCnR_TzvS57lRqWPxyEN6KfF20oHIq9EU9AXxeFU7DjgH35uXc6rRo-_f9nVU_ENLrJZQFqGF51ifkGjl5XlvX4FKWT_dDTdXEtDTIBoHB0DBhC1bDr3HYO0i0u6FNK23PjCK4f3mqf/s1739/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1739" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuB4chR4uO-lbcYpzyVUaV2hdSr3V986SmUKcMp9bDZiOMFZadCcCnR_TzvS57lRqWPxyEN6KfF20oHIq9EU9AXxeFU7DjgH35uXc6rRo-_f9nVU_ENLrJZQFqGF51ifkGjl5XlvX4FKWT_dDTdXEtDTIBoHB0DBhC1bDr3HYO0i0u6FNK23PjCK4f3mqf/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: AFTER HOURS Cast: Griffin Dunne, Patricia Arquette Year: 1985 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For the then very underrated, semi-underground and mostly unrewarded director Martin Scorsese, between his 1990 breakthrough GOODFELLAS and gritty boxing biopic RAGING BULL... at the beginning of the otherwise comparably anti-arthouse 1980's, he created his most thrilling and outright entertaining, hilarious feature film...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the neo noir comedy AFTER HOURS provides some of Scorsese's best visual direction — every single movement of every single person that central lead Griffin Dunne as Paul Hackett encounters is covered by either creative slow-pans or signature quick-zoom-shots, rhythmically in-step with precise, strategically-offbeat cinematography and editing...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, catherine o'hara, comedy, eighties, griffin dunne, john heard, linda florentino, martin scorsese, neo noir, teri garr

MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTS GRIFFIN DUNNE IN 'AFTER HOURS'

Title: AFTER HOURS Cast: Griffin Dunne, Patricia Arquette Year: 1985 Rating: ***** For the then very underrated, semi-underground and mostly...

DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWKS RACE CAR MELODRAMA 'RED LINE 7000'

<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><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/AVvXsEiq9V5GMj1RxNxuAEtrhtaEPtQtPZzpmjRRPqfuoMDuWg0wT-Oc5dyeC_M7MD21iNop97kbBHRME2504k3aKm4fmh9cJXiocQYoCX4sUv7r8kmSMPRc4BmS0GkmuM0c3cqKFkIXdnf3C4aUNJvpOSnFyF6BEEVwpoHl-KEFrdUs0O4p8i9jo5UG2fp_9VDv/s1656/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-24%20at%209.42.16%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1656" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9V5GMj1RxNxuAEtrhtaEPtQtPZzpmjRRPqfuoMDuWg0wT-Oc5dyeC_M7MD21iNop97kbBHRME2504k3aKm4fmh9cJXiocQYoCX4sUv7r8kmSMPRc4BmS0GkmuM0c3cqKFkIXdnf3C4aUNJvpOSnFyF6BEEVwpoHl-KEFrdUs0O4p8i9jo5UG2fp_9VDv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-24%20at%209.42.16%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the most grounded, deliberately mundane, and, directed by an old Howard Hawks starring a young James Caan (right before shooting EL DORADO), it's well worth both watching and re-watching since there's so much going on... yet hardly on the actual racetrack...</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></p><p></p><p>In which Caan's one of several racers though mostly holed-up at a Holiday Inn and partaking in various affairs while driving for Norman Aldan, whose pretty tomboy sister Laura Devon winds up quickly bedded with the film's buried lead in muscular drone John Robert Crawford, whose rushed backstory of a farm boy wanting to be the fastest takes away from an against-the-odds story that should have been Caan's instead... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

charlene holt, cult, ensemble, gail hire, george takei, hangout, howard hawks, james caan, laura devon, marianna hill, norman aldan, race car, sixties, skip ward, sport, teri garr

DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWKS RACE CAR MELODRAMA 'RED LINE 7000'

Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2 One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the mo...

VIEWING TWO CUTS OF 'CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND'

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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIvPYsLrXLjkP0wpDkWe9nEb8RcsCsT5zvHAwZPoMs9ZwAkhdJ5HX0wtjvoLW_hAGZDq-Z46JS2bSrws7OlKeTXG23BjsZwgE_EnZcPjjdpm4vg6xviUD1tUZjwiNrlOtMqL1uYkbB0yJdJ7qRYFAesqlt37Woo5XmTekmQUf5CNTn14t9eYqOCoj9A/s1348/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-03%20at%206.14.01%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="962" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIvPYsLrXLjkP0wpDkWe9nEb8RcsCsT5zvHAwZPoMs9ZwAkhdJ5HX0wtjvoLW_hAGZDq-Z46JS2bSrws7OlKeTXG23BjsZwgE_EnZcPjjdpm4vg6xviUD1tUZjwiNrlOtMqL1uYkbB0yJdJ7qRYFAesqlt37Woo5XmTekmQUf5CNTn14t9eYqOCoj9A/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-03%20at%206.14.01%20PM.jpeg" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>And yet, Steven Spielberg directed CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND similar to how a disaster film builds to the flashpoint, along with particular scenes similar to the horror genre. Like when the "Spielberg Mom Character"... who are all always tough, independent yet sweet and vulnerable... and her little boy are visited noisily by determined, unseen aliens who make like Santa Clause by trying to sneak in through the.. Well you've probably seen the 1977 smash hit, and it's worth revisiting whenever turning up on the big screen, like recently, during the 40th Anniversary. Although the version shown under big theater lights is Spielberg's Director Cut, which deletes one sequence and, a bit later on, adds another...
The latter giving the future billionaire and newly million dollar director who was not yet thirty-years-old a chance to pay homage to both his cinematic hero, David Lean, who made LAWRENCE OF ARABIA that inspired John Milius's THE WIND AND THE LION, which has style and movement that would leapfrog over to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK...

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A funny moment that isn't altogether necessary since dad will end up ditching his family for a journey into what could be endless outer space rollercoaster ride... Instead, starting out with a more lonely, disassociated suburban dad starring wanly at the train until the audience, and the character, are domesticated by a surge of bickering kids and an impatient mother/wife: And also in the original theatrical cut that's not on the Director's Cut, Dreyfuss is in a power station that not only proves his job and skills, but will soon differentiate "their" power to ours. Once he's underway searching through a map before the first encounter along the dark road, it was nice to have seen him nervous and awkward at the starting gate.<br />
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdhGqkgshyRjpcHHRXO-_Kq5PPYPoNmpcm1L3MpTG9Z284g_jiD-QjIsaNs_4ApKuc_ljW22hfeVpHsPqddJIFjbP0EEXSsowEbUVn_J6eiaGEx3aVJ0ZQEpl1xB8xwmjvf6j--rCzZVzwapHZ36PNKlem5oYNE74z0VyRSeTM-S2kbyOcaMZxzpH3NA/s1482/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-03%20at%205.34.38%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1482" data-original-width="1122" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdhGqkgshyRjpcHHRXO-_Kq5PPYPoNmpcm1L3MpTG9Z284g_jiD-QjIsaNs_4ApKuc_ljW22hfeVpHsPqddJIFjbP0EEXSsowEbUVn_J6eiaGEx3aVJ0ZQEpl1xB8xwmjvf6j--rCzZVzwapHZ36PNKlem5oYNE74z0VyRSeTM-S2kbyOcaMZxzpH3NA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-03%20at%205.34.38%20PM.jpeg" width="242" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>And so, any version is worth the watch, but, along with the version that's now in theaters, why not see what initially spellbound audiences (we're intentionally leaving out the ripoff "Special Edition" from 1978, where audiences barely catch a glimpse into the mothership)... In either it would've helped trimming like seven minutes from the end of act two, where Dreyfuss goes bonkers to make the Devils Tower with fences and dirt stolen from various neighbor's lawns... Following melodrama where dad cries and makes his son weep along with him, our man's personal pandemonium is a bit much, really. But Dreyfuss was obviously playing Spielberg himself. Probably because this was written by the groundbreaking director who'd usually leave the writing to others and so CLOSE ENCOUNTERS — showcasing not only amazing special effects but car chases ala SUGARLAND EXPRESS, his first theatrical feature — is Spielberg's true labor-of-love that, while no JAWS, puts the artist in the forefront — with a style of direction that remains an influence to this day.
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blockbuster, bob balaban, carl weathers, cult, melinda dillon, richard dreyfuss, science-fiction, seventies, steven spielberg, teri garr, thriller

VIEWING TWO CUTS OF 'CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND'

At this point, it seems any movie anticipating extra terrestrials will end badly. As in, violently. And not in the human's favor since m...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2016 / No comments / christopher collet , corey haim , eighties , peter weller , robert downey jr. , suspense , teri garr

CHRIS COLLET FIRSTBORN, PETER WELLER MOVING IN

christopher collet, corey haim, eighties, peter weller, robert downey jr., suspense, teri garr

CHRIS COLLET FIRSTBORN, PETER WELLER MOVING IN

Peter Weller doesn't trust no one and holds all the cards in FIRSTBORN One of the best performances by an actor, soon be known as a ...

REVIEW OF TOOTSIE STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN TWICE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1982 Grade: A+</td></tr>
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Perhaps the only reason Dustin Hoffman didn’t win the Best Actor Oscar for TOOTSIE is... his best moments occur as an actress, literally. His character Michael Dorsey, according to rumor, had the kind of difficult personality that Hoffman waged on Hollywood during his prime in the 1970’s. In other words, he could have been Dorsey without THE GRADUATE catapult, which makes the moments between Michael and his agent perhaps the funniest in the entire film…<br />
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Behind the scenes, director Sydney Pollack (originally an actor) and Hoffman were constantly at odds, so this edgy energy transitioned perfectly on screen. It’s Pollock’s bigwig George Fields who tells his frantic client he will never be hired in New York, or anywhere. That’s when the movie truly begins…<br />
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TOOTSIE is one of the greatest comedies of all time, taking the Billy Wilder canvas into the “modern era” and one of the first motion pictures to begin defining a brand new shiny decade, the 1980’s. And what keeps it from cult status is the mainstream popularity upon release, and the glossy, feel-good, painfully catchy Stephen Bishop tracks and also the title; the latter an intentionally ironic take on the dying art of male chauvinism narrowed into Dabney Coleman’s soap director, Ron. The 9 TO 5 villain plays a surprisingly vulnerable sexist boyfriend of our ingenue love interest, and the only Oscar winner, Jessica Lange, whose beautiful actress Julie is the apple of our androgynous hero's eyes. Her performance is also the most subtle; a gentle turn relying on bouts of pallid reverie – the single mother struggling for true love in a era, and industry, merely masquerading progression for the still maligned "second sex.”  <br />
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Dorsey, who alters his name to Dorothy Michaels and becomes a strong female character on the soap, has a few suitors including Charles Durning as Julie’s friendly father and scene-stealer George Gaynes as the soap's stock veteran bad actor, eventually serenading Dorothy in a scene that ends with one of the funniest lines ever: no surprise (yet in a surprising non-credited role) it comes from Bill Murray, providing one of his wittiest roles as Michael’s oddball writer roommate. Also, Murray smoothly bridges the two main templates: Michael at home preparing for his job on the set, a sublime balance of personal life and show business.  <br />
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In the Thankless Supporting department is a wildly emotional Teri Garr as a struggling actress whose initial failure for the soap leads to the open door wherein Michael's desperate changeling occurs. Giving Hoffman one of his greatest performances and is, with the exception of a sympathetic yet one-dimensional Oscar winning RAIN MAN four years later, the epitome of his genius as a shape-shifter who could vanish into any eclectic role: Centering not on the overall humor of Dorsey’s ruse, it’s the subtle observations… like how cutthroat shopping women can be, to the look in a man's eyes full of lust… that brings to life a modern woman who is still wholesome, old fashion, and not even female. Thus, tapping into his feminine side, Dorsey, and the script by Larry Gelbart, never gets too obvious or sentimental.

dabney coleman, dustin hoffman, eighties, jessica lange, teri garr

REVIEW OF TOOTSIE STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN TWICE

Year: 1982 Grade: A+ Perhaps the only reason Dustin Hoffman didn’t win the Best Actor Oscar for TOOTSIE is... his best moments occur as ...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/23/2013 / No comments / action , adaptation , deserted island , francis ford coppola , hoyt axton , mickey rooney , seventies , teri garr

THE BLACK STALLION

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This could have been a silent film, relying on gorgeous visuals of an Arabian horse and his boy who meet on a ship and, after a horrifying wreck, are stranded on a desert island where the titular Stallion saves young Alec Ramsey's life, though still not trusting him till they eventually connect: the camera remaining underwater on both feet and hooves... then <i>only </i>hooves return to the beach. The bonding between horse and boy takes its time, and is not an easy process for either.<br />
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The visual treasure sustains in America where, after both are rescued, Kelly Reno's Alec meets Mickey Rooney as an ex jockey who, reluctant at first, trains boy and horse to win a big, and seemingly impossible, race.<br />
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Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, this magical adaptation, exceeding Walter Farely's creative but basic novel, flows in the iconic GODFATHER maverick's unique, masterful style.

action, adaptation, deserted island, francis ford coppola, hoyt axton, mickey rooney, seventies, teri garr