Genre Cinema
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THE INCIDENT (Dir. Larry Peerce, 1967, US)
* * * In Larry Peerce’s harrowing thriller, The Incident (1967), a cross-section of native New Yorkers finds themselves confined in a subway car, facing a veritable nightmare as two malevolent street hoodlums turn the mundane journey into a claustrophobic crucible. Tony Musante, and a young, sinister Martin Sheen, whom we first encounter menacingly prowling Continue reading
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KID BLUE (Dir. James Frawley, Dennis Hopper, 1973, US)
* * * A forgotten Western from the early 70s but an altogether brilliantly funny one with Dennis Hopper in fine form as Texas train robber and proletarian semi-Marxist desperado Kid Blue who decides to go straight in a small town in Texas. A comedy Western with a latent counterculture dimension, Kid Blue’s attempts to Continue reading
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A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (Dir. Jan Egleson, 1990, US)
* * * * Director Jan Egleson must have been taking careful notes when he was watching Get Carter because this is a work that is constructed deliciously around the cold dead eyes of Michael Caine which pierces through every frame. Egleson glances into the cutthroat mischief of the corporate world in which the suits Continue reading
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THE HOSPITAL (Dir. Arthur Hiller, 1971, US)
* * * I think it is George C Scott’s extended raging monologue on the broad metaphorical complexities of impotency where Arthur Hiller’s film seems to find its exact expressive pitch, carving out not only a generational angst but pointing to a broader sense of disillusionment with everyday civil institutions that would characterise much of Continue reading
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DOC (1971, Dir. Frank Perry, US)
The legend of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday is inexhaustible, having given birth to numerous cinematic incantations, which have all in their own way brought something distinctive to the Western narrative. Frank Perry’s Doc, made in 1971 just as the term revisionist was about to take hold of the genre and begin in earnest the Continue reading
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