tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post3473582035985117470..comments2024-02-25T10:27:34.057-05:00Comments on Media Funhouse: The Return of the Son of the Trail of the Curse…: Deceased Artiste Blake EdwardsMedia Funhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243301374887605164noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post-26834154457006763862010-12-22T07:47:52.789-05:002010-12-22T07:47:52.789-05:00Actually, there are some clips on YouTube, and her...Actually, there are some clips on YouTube, and here's the patient. confident beginning, showing the ctcle of the working day - (and earlier, by "mule" I meant "cow pony".)<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfFZ7UwuOMANTHONY SIDEShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05787405026283860499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post-53450133480780167042010-12-22T07:31:45.897-05:002010-12-22T07:31:45.897-05:00Edwards's Wild Rovers is one of my favourite m...Edwards's <i>Wild Rovers</i> is one of my favourite movies: a gritty, tender western with perfect performances from William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Joe Don Baker Karl Malden and everyone else. It's like a darker <i>Thunderbolt and Lightfoot</i>, with a beautiful attention to detail: the bumpiness of the road the wagon goes along near the beginning, and the naturalism of the performances - O'Neal's character holding his face blank to avoid showing emotion when a cowboy is killed by a mule. <br />I like the randomness of the violence, and the fanaticism of Baker's character, and the sense of grim hard work in the cowboy life. The scenery is beautiful without being pretty or lingered-over, and the movie is less stylized than Peckinpah often was, and can stand alongside <i>Ride the High Country</i> and is - I think - superior to <i>The Wild Bunch</i> and <i>Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid</i> - certainly the acting is subtler than in the former. It's sentimental at times, as far as I remember, but it has a sense of reality that's rare in movies, even back in the 70s.<br /> http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=34641ANTHONY SIDEShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05787405026283860499noreply@blogger.com