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Two of our favorite film classics are hitting Blu Ray! Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 conspiracy masterpiece The Conversation starring Gene Hackman and David Lynch’s 1986 psychological mystery thriller Blue Velvet starring Kyle McLachlan, Isabella Rosselini, Laura Dern and Dennis Hopper. Both these movies have garnered a devoted following from film geeks over the decades and each is like a fine wine, they seem to just get better with age. One [read...] 
One of the most important and iconic films in cinema history is Easy Rider. It was directed by veteran actor Dennis Hopper in 1969 and has since become a cult classic for generations of cineasts. Wyatt aka Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) travel to Mexico to buy some yayo (cocaine) from a cheap seller. They try the coke and they laugh at how good it is. Wyatt [read...] 
Being a big fan of the late Robert Altman’s work, my goal is to see every film he made in his career. One of the titles that I had heard come up over the years was O.C. and Stiggs (1987). I never did alot of research on the movie and didnt exactly know what year it was released. I assumed it was one of Altman’s 70s films from its title [read...] 
“My film isn’t about Vietnam… it is Vietnam. And the way we made it was very much the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane.” – Francis Ford Coppola One of the most legendary films in cinema history is the 1979 existential war [read...] 
“Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand” We’d like to kick off our latest feature on Furious Cinema with the theatrical poster from one of our favorite films: Stuart Rosenberg‘s Cool Hand Luke. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is a man who has a hard time conforming to society. After he is arrested for cutting the heads off parking meters, he’s sent to work on a Florida chain gang. Luke proves [read...] While Easy Rider (1969) wasn’t the first counterculture film ever made, it was a benchmark work of cinema that had a special resonance with audiences of it’s era. It struck a vital nerve with the 60s generation and the eclectic rock music chosen by Director Dennis Hopper was a very important part of the structure and atmosphere of the film as well. It conveyed as many political and social [read...] |
   
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