Films in Review

Saw #RidetheHighCountry. Like they say, a beautiful elegy. Extraordinarily so, in fact. But the Hammonds, the mining camp, that bordello …

… are all the shape of things to come in Peckinpah, the Western, American cinema, everything. Golden Age Hollywood was not only golden ($) …

… but also wildly out of touch w’ so many of the world’s realities. So it really is good to hear characters swear, to see human foibles so fully …

… and yet so sympathetically detailed. The thing is, they won’t stop there, will they?