Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The infamous fur trapper scene from Deadman, with Iggy Pop and Billy Bob Thornton. A friend alerted me to this fascinating interview with Rudy Wurlitzer in Arthur Magazine where Wurlitzer and director Alex Cox reveal that Jim Jarmusch took many of the ideas for his 1995 film Deadman from a Wurlitzer script. The rest of the [...]
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): *** Trapped Ashes, an anthology horror film in the style of Dead of Night (1945) featuring the return of the legendary Monte Hellman (The Shooting, Two-Lane Blacktop) -- who has been...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Serpentine Gallery, W2, Fri 15
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Philip French: The latest instalment in the Caped Crusader's saga is dominated by a chilling performance by Heath Ledger
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Famous Firsts Focusing on the debut feature work of famous, and infamous, figures of film The Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Debut film of: Monte Hellman, director By Roderick Heath It’s harder to judge the quality of a directorial...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Image via JamesTaylorWeb.com. Monte Hellman Live: The Shooting, Two Lane Blacktop, and Better Watch Out! Wednesday, July 23 Alamo Drafthouse Downtown ( 320 E 6th Street ) $16 for triple feature, $10 per film [ info ] | [ tickets ] When one thinks of B-movie icon Roger Corman's disciples, big names spring to mind: Coppola and Scorsese come first, followed by genre directors like Jack Hill. One name...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
"What can one say about Rudy Wurlitzer that doesn't suggest multitudes of overlapping worlds'... After several years in the New York literary and visual arts underground as a participant observer, Wurlitzer emerged with a series of one of a...
Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
You can beat the police, you can beat the road, and you can even beat the clock. But you can’t beat the desert. Nobody can. You just cannot. — Super Soul in Vanishing Point I’ve been a big fan of Monte Hellman’s film Two-Lane Blacktop for a long time, but somehow never saw Richard Sarafian’s Vanishing [...]
Lux Lotus (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
All is coming up a pocketful of posies in my world of work this week... Rudolph Wurlitzer, author of The Drop Edge of Yonder, which Patti Smith recommends, has an exclusive essay at MaudNewton.com that could not be more of...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
“I think my great handicap is my insistence on freedom,” Dawn Powell once wrote. “I require it. So I cannot make the suave adjustments to a successful writer’s life — right people, right hospitality, right gestures, because I want to be free.” Rudolph Wurlitzer, like many fine writers, could say the same. The [...]
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The list of brilliant film-makers who have dropped out of the limelight could fill the Croisette. But why did they fall out of favour?
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
As you may know, my thesis is due in two days, so if you expect me to have anything of substance to say here, you're shit out of luck. However, I'm taking a scheduled break to list a few more DVD updates. Also, just as a forewarning, the posts immediately following the completion of my paper may be just as superficial. But I'll be back soon... anyway... Three silent films are on their way to your shelves....
digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
From: The Criterion Collection - Year: 1971 - Rated: Not Rated - Release Date: December 11, 2007 - Features: Anamorphic * Widescreen * DD 5.1 * Extras! * - Recommended! A leisurely character study of ostensibly what it means to drive, race and to use a car as an extension of oneself. Monte Hellman goes minimal with dialogue, but still creates a travelogue that is almost the equivalent free range man/car...
In the Company of Glenn (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
I don't need to do research on why Sunrise is so highly regarded. I know that point of view and happen to disagree with it strongly. Isn't that permitted? Of course not. Groupthink is ruthlessly enforced in the film realm....
Lux Lotus (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
The newest book I'm publicizing is out this week and the author is making just one appearance, this evening. Details pour vous: Screenwriter and novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, who cut a legendary swathe across the Hollywood mainstream of the '70s and...
