Review: Mother, Jugs and Speed
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Although the advertising works hard to suggest Mother, Jugs and Speed is “a black and blue comedy” in the tradition of M*A*S*H, the actual film...
View ArticleReview: Robin and Marian
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A lot of things work against Richard Lester’s new film Robin and Marian. In the first place, as two of England’s most treasured heroes, those...
View ArticleReview: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] by Ken Eisler It just so happens that I was one of that lonely number who actually liked Mel Stuart’s One Is a Lonely Number some five years back....
View ArticleReview: Shoot
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Guy starts his movie with loving closeups of a ramrod squeezing oil down a rifle bore and a hand stroking off the outer barrel, he’d better have...
View ArticleReview: The Missouri Breaks
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] More than a fair share of iridescent, long-shadowed mornings and ghostly blue, otherworldly evenings mark the twilight of an era in The Missouri...
View ArticleCreature Contact
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller visited the Seattle Film Society the weekend of May 8 and, among many other things that happened within 46-and-a-half exhilarating,...
View ArticleHey, Mom, Where’s My Suicide Note Collection?
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller: “You can always tell about a leaper by the distance his toes are from the edge of either the window or the ledge of the roof he’s...
View Article“When it’s night time …“: Myth and the Geography of the Unconscious in ‘I...
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] “I wanted the camera to tilt slightly in one direction and the picture to tilt in another. So when it evens out, we have death. I wanted something...
View ArticleThe Steel Helmet: “I’ve got a hunch we’re all going around in circles”
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] There are two kind of people in The Steel Helmet: those who are dead and those who are about to be; men who have ceased to move anywhere and mean...
View Article‘Run of the Arrow': Birth Pangs of the United States
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a...
View ArticleReview: The Crazies
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A hand unscrews a series of lightbulbs. A switch is flicked on and the room stays dark. Shadows and forms dart out of vision before they can be...
View ArticleReview: The Missouri Breaks
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] More than a fair share of iridescent, long-shadowed mornings and ghostly blue, otherworldly evenings mark the twilight of an era in The Missouri...
View ArticleCreature Contact
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller visited the Seattle Film Society the weekend of May 8 and, among many other things that happened within 46-and-a-half exhilarating,...
View ArticleHey, Mom, Where’s My Suicide Note Collection?
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller: “You can always tell about a leaper by the distance his toes are from the edge of either the window or the ledge of the roof he’s...
View Article“When it’s night time …“: Myth and the Geography of the Unconscious in ‘I...
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] “I wanted the camera to tilt slightly in one direction and the picture to tilt in another. So when it evens out, we have death. I wanted something...
View ArticleThe Steel Helmet: “I’ve got a hunch we’re all going around in circles”
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] There are two kind of people in The Steel Helmet: those who are dead and those who are about to be; men who have ceased to move anywhere and mean...
View Article‘Run of the Arrow’: Birth Pangs of the United States
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a...
View ArticleReview: The Crazies
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A hand unscrews a series of lightbulbs. A switch is flicked on and the room stays dark. Shadows and forms dart out of vision before they can be...
View ArticleReview: Robin and Marian
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A lot of things work against Richard Lester’s new film Robin and Marian. In the first place, as two of England’s most treasured heroes, those...
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