THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
All’s well till Act Three of this rousing, morally complex World War II epic. Then its character arcs either end weirdly, or are edited poorly, including Stanley Baker’s as the Butcher of Barcelona,...
View ArticleFAREWELL TO FILM GREAT: AUGUST 2003
Bob McMurdo with Kurt Vonnegut Bruce McMurdo (June 4th, age 71) Father of FIR Screening Committee member Bob McMurdo. Bob has been with FIR’s committee since FIR’s current editor took over, and before...
View ArticleBEHOLD A PALE HORSE
Columbia Pictures, 1964. 121 mins / 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio / B&W Columbia/TriStar has several hundred films left in its library, some of great stature. Why this one? Not that I’m carping. I saw this...
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