Monday, March 9, 2009
Scarecrow
The early 70s were full of these terrific American buddy road movies — Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, The Last Detail, Scarecrow — meditative dramas that unfold leisurely and unexpectedly, the way only indie films are allowed to nowadays. Consider the star power in these four pictures: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Randy Quaid, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino. The smaller, more portable cameras invented during WWII finally caught on in Hollywood at that time, enabling the love affair with location shooting that characterizes the American New Wave. There's a mini film series here.
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Never saw. Now will.
ReplyDeleteOff-topic: New Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Review.
...if so moved. Hrm.
ReplyDeleteDora and I watched that a couple months ago. We enjoyed it
ReplyDeleteYeah, D said it was good so I checked it out. Thanks.
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