On October 24, 1969 the movie Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid was released in the United States of America. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/releaseinfo Here is one of my favorite clips from the movie: Rain Drops keep falling on my head The Making Of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid – (Full Program) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Background Articles and Videos Butch Cassidy [...]...
You learn something new about your movie tastes when you're writing about them every single day. I'm realizing that most of my favorite montages don't come from the 1980s, but are historical recreations of one kind or another. (Even now, there's one hovering in my bookmarks because I can't decide whether it's a montage or a credits report. You'll see it eventually, I'm sure.) Today's montage is from...
While the progeny of Madame Blavatsky and Dennis Wheatly remain on display, they've piled up into the corners to make way for a selection of Kurt Vonnnegut - although five minutes in Slaughterhouse 5 has already gone. Vonnegut - who died this year - was one of the great minds of SF (although the literary estblishment might claim he wasn't anything so low; like Margaret Atwood's claims for Oryx and...
One of the great buddy films of all time, this pop western was the most successful movie of the year, broke box-office records, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. (Click below for the post and a larger video screen.)
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American Western film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance (1969) movie aired on AMC TV at 8 pm tonight. The film four Academy Awards (Oscar) and seven categories nominated. The film won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical), Best Music, and best song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head." Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid film directed...
Beth Miller is an Austin, Texas based musician with fifteen-plus years experience playing the guitar. She currently runs a newsletter focused on honest, no-hype reviews of various guitar-related theory and method training products. The Sting (DVD) Review [...]
Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time" 1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) director: Rob Reiner 2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) director: Jim Sharman 3. Freaks (1932) director: Tod Browning 4. Harold and Maude (1971) director: Hal Ashby 5. Pink Flamingos (1972) director: John Waters 6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) director: Tobe Hooper 7. Repo Man (1984) director:...
The following is a rough translation of an essay by Stefanie Schlüter of the Kunst der Vermittlung project. I used Babelfish and Google Translation to stitch together the most coherent translation I could manage; by no means perfect but hopefully you’ll get the idea: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP ACCORDING TO CHRISTIANNE BENEDICT Shooting [...]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid USA, 1969 110 minutes. 7:30 p.m. April 29 at the Castro. This is one film that lived up to its box office - it was the highest-grossing film of 1969, and one of the most entertaining films of its era. Paul Newman and Robert...
Hard to think of a thornier novel to bring to the big screen then John Irving’s masterful “The World According to Garp.” It’s so full of life - and larger than life scenarios - that any movie adaptation was doomed to failure. So why did the film version of “Garp” work so wonderfully? The 1982 film tells the [...] Related posts: WWTW Rewind - ‘Insomnia’...
I'll just throw my prejudice down like a gauntlet in this first paragraph. I'm not a fan of John Travolta or Tom Cruise. And God Bless the late great Paul Newman, but I don't care if Cruise got his blessing for a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, ...
Tom Cruise , the star of ' Valkyrie ', reportedly wants to take on Robert Redford 's role of Sundance in the possible 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' remake with John Travolta playing Cassidy.
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid film directed by George Roy Hill, Produced at at 20th Century Fox by John Foreman, and story by William Goldman. The movie music director Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David.