Saturday, May 13, 2006




...the underrated 1975 train-set Charles Bronson oater Breakheart Pass (nice poster too!) is on TCM at 1900 as part of a four-movie tribute to cinematographer Lucien ("Wild Bunch") Ballard which starts with "Ride the High Country" and continues with "The Killing". Tough to mess up trains as a cinematic subject, though. Remember seeing this one with Dad in the theatre. Recommended too a bit later Gerd Oswald's creepy, unusual "A Kiss Before Dying", the best thing Robert Wagner ever did, also with Joanne Woodward as twins... (later: only one Joanne I'm afraid, was confusing it with the remake with Sean Young and Matt Dillon. But boy director Oswald sure had a weird, widescreen eye--people moving against quarries and endless avenues in stiff tableaus unaware of the monster, closer to "L'aventura" than Hitchcock...)




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