While US Senator Chapman (Charles Durning), his love interest and secretary Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross) and an advisor take a break from politics on their boat off the coast of Honolulu late in the year 1941, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen), an advisor for a military contractor, joins Captain Yelland (Dirk […]
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On August 27th, Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release Francis Ford Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW: THE FINAL CUT in a new 4K BluRay Edition. For longtime fans of the 1979 Vietnam War epic masterpiece, this will be the ultimate must own as it contains everything related to the film’s multimedia history in […]
There’s an old saying that goes “War is hell” and that is surely true but when you watch Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now, it also shows that it can be exhillerating in many ways. Nothing conveys this notion better than the catastrophic helicopter attack on a small coastal […]
Terrence Malick’s directorial debut masterpiece BADLANDS (1973) will be released in a new high definition Blu Ray edition from Criterion March 19th 2013. Martin Sheen stars as Kit, a James Dean-esque young man who falls in love with a doe eyed high school girl named Holly (Sissy Spacek). When her […]
“When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?” […]
“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 […]
Based on the true story of the Charles Starkweather killing spree in the 1950s, Badlands (1973) is the directorial debut of Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line). The film stars Martin Sheen as Kit and Sissy Spacek as Holly, two young lovers on the run from the law. Where the […]
If you’ve got a halfway decent taste in movies, then the name Terrence Malick will ring a bell. It’s not one of those super-busy actors who make a popcorn movie every other year. He’s more like Thomas Pynchon, lives in seclusion, makes a hit every once in a while, and […]