Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (DVD) (Criterion)
First published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning with the September 25, 1965 issue, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, was an immediate sensation. In what Capote coined a non-fiction novel, the story which details the murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. The […]
Blu-ray Review: Little Big Man
Three years after the influential Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn helmed the epic and revisionist Western, Little Big Man. Based on the novel Thomas Berger and adapted for the screen by Calder Willingham Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack Crabb, a man whose various adventures take him back and forth between the Native American and […]
Blu-ray Review: True Grit
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard to argue with—long a box office superstar, True Grit was Wayne’s 139th film, and only […]