Ivan Passer’s superb coda to the ’60s counterculture generation now enjoys a formidable reputation; this new Fun City Editions release packs it with terrific extras. It may have the best performances by top stars John Heard, Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn. Disaffected 30-somethings in Santa Barbara investigate a murder and then try to blackmail a corporate CEO. Heard is the maimed, one-eyed veteran already judged unstable, Bridges the yacht bum who gets by on his good looks, and Eichhorn the most forlorn woman of the early ’80s, looking for a reason to give a damn about something. Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography and Jack Nitzsche’s music track couldn’t be bettered; the movie deserves the place of honor granted to Easy Rider.
Cutter’s Way
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry,...
Cutter’s Way
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
"Sorry, I just slashed my wrists." "Well, tape 'em!" This is the aftermath of the '60s protest movement. Ivan Passer's riveting murder mystery of flakes and losers in sun-drenched, guilty Santa Barbara expresses the rage of radicals faced with the growing class divide, and the arrogance of the wealthy. Cutter's Way Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Ship Date , 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina Van Pallandt. Cinematography Jordan Cronenweth Production Designer Josan F. Russo Film Editor Caroline Biggerstaff Original Music Jack Nitzsche Writing credits Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, from the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg. Produced by Paul R. Gurian Directed by Ivan Passer
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Beautiful Kate is a surprisingly moving slow-burn drama from Rachel Ward of .The Thornbirds. fame. I was bracing myself for a plodding borefest, but found myself drawn into the lives of an estranged Australian family reunited and having to deal with some long-buried family secrets. Adapted from the American novelist Newton Thornburg.s novel by Rachel Ward herself, the American locale gets moved from Illinois to the dusty, sparse but gorgeous landscape of the Australian outback - a perfect setting to harbor a few generations of familial guilt. While this might all sound very familiar, the .ol' buried family tragedy reunion., the amazing performances and deft direction really elevates the material. After 20 years without a visit, now...
- 1/6/2011
- by Frankie Dees
- Monsters and Critics
Beautiful Kate is one of those rare films that offer rather controversial and taboo subject matter while at the same time, remaining tasteful and classy. An Australian production based on Newton Thornburg’s novel of the same name, Beautiful Kate is an honest portrayal of dysfunctional family life.
The film opens with Ned Kendall (Ben Mendelsohn), a man in his early 40s who is driving to see his ailing father played with much grumpiness by Bryan Brown. Along for the ride is Ned’s sexy and much younger fiancée, Toni (Maeve Dermody). They stay with Ned’s younger sister, Sally (Rachel Griffiths), at the Kendall family home located in a remote part of rural Australia. While they are there, Ben has flashbacks of when he was a teenager and the scandalous relationship he had with his twin sister, Kate, played by the lovely Sophie Lowe.
The majority of the film...
The film opens with Ned Kendall (Ben Mendelsohn), a man in his early 40s who is driving to see his ailing father played with much grumpiness by Bryan Brown. Along for the ride is Ned’s sexy and much younger fiancée, Toni (Maeve Dermody). They stay with Ned’s younger sister, Sally (Rachel Griffiths), at the Kendall family home located in a remote part of rural Australia. While they are there, Ben has flashbacks of when he was a teenager and the scandalous relationship he had with his twin sister, Kate, played by the lovely Sophie Lowe.
The majority of the film...
- 1/3/2011
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
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- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
“Based on a 1982 novel by Newton Thornburg,” Rachel Ward’s “Beautiful Kate” “begins with forty-year-old Ned Kendall (Ben Mendelsohn). At the behest of his dutiful sister Sally (Rachel Griffiths), Ned reluctantly returns to the isolated family homestead after a twenty-year absence because his cantankerous and bullying father, Bruce (Bryan Brown), is dying. Ned has dragged his twenty-one-year-old fiancée, Toni (Maeve Dermody), along to act as a lipstick-coated suit of armour and …...
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- indieWIRE - People
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