“Actors loved him”– Charlton Heston on Orson Welles and “Touch of Evil”
In 1998 I had the rare pleasure of interviewing Charlton Heston for the release of the Walter Murch-supervised “restoration” of Touch of Evil (1958). It was supposed to be the center of a essay on the...
View ArticleThe Making, Unmaking and Reclamation of “Touch of Evil”
“(Universal) told me that although they didn’t know who was going to direct (Touch of Evil), Orson Welles was going to play the heavy. ‘You know, Orson Welles is a pretty good director,’ I said. ‘Did...
View ArticleTouch of Evil
This program note was written in connection with the November 16, 1971 showing of Touch of Evil in the University of Washington Office of Lectures & Concerts Autumn Quarter Film Series “The Cinema...
View ArticleReview: The Three Musketeers
[Originally published in Movietone News 31, April 1974] The Three Musketeers opens with an auspiciousness I haven’t experienced since the first image and chords of 2001: Against a dark, featureless...
View ArticleReview: The Four Musketeers
[Originally published in Movietone News 40, April 1975] The Four Musketeers cannot be recommended to anyone who hasn’t seen The Three Musketeers. On the other hand, you haven’t seen The Three until...
View ArticleReview: Midway
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] To make an uninvolving movie out of one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War may seem a dubious challenge, but there’s no denying...
View ArticleThe Beautiful and the Damned: Major Dundee
Sam Peckinpah’s much-messed-with 1965 film Major Dundee has just come out on Blu-ray from the boutique label Twilight Time. The two-disc set features both the 2005 reissue based on a preview version of...
View ArticleVideophiled Classic: ‘Zulu’ and ‘Khartoum’
The sun sets on the British Empire and the historical epic in a pair of 1960s productions built around legendary colonial battles of the late 19th century. Legendary to British history, that is. The...
View ArticleVideophiled Essential: ‘Touch of Evil’ on Blu-ray
Touch of Evil (Universal, Blu-ray) – Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic. It’s considered...
View ArticleReview: Soylent Green
[Originally published in Movietone News 25, September 1973] Richard Fleischer’s new film is a science-fiction-horror-mystery. The horrors are ecological: pollution, overpopulation, welfare as a...
View ArticleReview: Touch of Evil
[Originally written for Seattle Weekly, 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and...
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Review: The Three Musketeers
[Originally published in Movietone News 31, April 1974] The Three Musketeers opens with an auspiciousness I haven’t experienced since the first image and chords of 2001: Against a dark, featureless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Four Musketeers
[Originally published in Movietone News 40, April 1975] The Four Musketeers cannot be recommended to anyone who hasn’t seen The Three Musketeers. On the other hand, you haven’t seen The Three until...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Midway
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] To make an uninvolving movie out of one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War may seem a dubious challenge, but there’s no denying...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Beautiful and the Damned: Major Dundee
Sam Peckinpah’s much-messed-with 1965 film Major Dundee has just come out on Blu-ray from the boutique label Twilight Time. The two-disc set features both the 2005 reissue based on a preview version of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Videophiled Classic: ‘Zulu’ and ‘Khartoum’
The sun sets on the British Empire and the historical epic in a pair of 1960s productions built around legendary colonial battles of the late 19th century. Legendary to British history, that is. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Videophiled Essential: ‘Touch of Evil’ on Blu-ray
Touch of Evil (Universal, Blu-ray) – Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic. It’s considered...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Soylent Green
[Originally published in Movietone News 25, September 1973] Richard Fleischer’s new film is a science-fiction-horror-mystery. The horrors are ecological: pollution, overpopulation, welfare as a...
View ArticleReview: Touch of Evil
[Originally written for Seattle Weekly, 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and...
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