Obviously one of the unavoidable discussion topics, when Pete and Tillie and Sounder are playing ten minutes away from each other along Highway 8, is some sort of attempted assay of Mr. Martin Ritt, since …
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Martin Ritt moves around more at ease in Pete and Tillie's neighborhood than in Sounder's.
January 18, 1973
Ulzana's Raid doesn't follow charted roads
In Ulzana's Raid, after an opening shot of the Indian Reservation's signboard, a scant handful of Apaches ("Apache war parties come in all sizes") silently lead a string of horses out of the corral and …
December 14, 1972
Los Angeles Film Expo
For an eleven day stand, starting November 9, the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood will bulge with movies. Movies in unfamiliar language, usually (the most grating must be Danish, weaving between whine and stutter, seldom …
November 16, 1972
Hickey & Boggs: Not Your Normal Gumshoes
Hickey and Boggs — each is the kind of name which must expect a lifelong siege of puns, nonsense rhymes, snide pronunciations; together they sound like a partnership in a realty agency. Virtually the movie's …
November 2, 1972