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The definitive critical appreciation of Walter Hill, the acclaimed director of action films, thrillers, Westerns, and other genre pictures.
The definitive critical appreciation of Walter Hill, the acclaimed director of action films, thrillers, Westerns, and other genre pictures.
The summer of 1989 was a particularly turbulent one for Walter Chaw, who found solace in a little movie about the end of the world, Steve De Jarnatt's genre-bending "Miracle Mile". Part memoir, part critical study, and featuring the participation of writer-director De Jarnatt, this monograph is an utterly unique chronicle of the Reagan era that examines how the most public of media can give meaning to the most private apocalypse.
This collection of fictional remembrances of a Marine during the Vietnam conflict is told in a series of short pieces that describe the particular horrors of this war through one man's eyes. From 'The Gift', a story about boot camp and his love-hate for the drill sergeant, to 'Zelda Waiting', which finds him leaving Vietnam 'packed in the back of a truck with all our paraphernalia and our travel brochures', these vignettes take the reader into the dark world of this war. The absurdity of this time is profiled in 'Today's Spectators', in which an argument between two South Vietnamese factions plays out like a football game while the Americans eat peanuts and popcorn and watch a fighter plane strafe a convoy of trucks and tanks: This is a movie. I knew it, I knew it all along. Reminiscent of 'Apocalypse Now' in its treatment of meaninglessness and truthfulness, this book puts the reader square in the middle of a time and a place that even now remains controversial.
Now in its tenth year on the web, FILM FREAK CENTRAL returns to the world of print to assess the damage from the cinema of 2006: an uneasy melting pot of brutal folk tales, introspective superheroes, and bullet ballets. Featuring a foreword by director/playwright Neil LaBute, "The Film Freak Central 2007" Annual boasts critiques of over 215 recent releases, along with Top 10 Lists and 30 brand-new reviews that can't be found anywhere else--all capped off with a special movie-celebratory series from the staff of FilmFreakCentral.net (Bill Chambers, Walter Chaw, Travis Mackenzie Hoover, Alex Jackson, and Ian Pugh) to commemorate a decade of existence as one of the Internet's premier sources for intelligent and in-depth criticism
A compilation of selected review essays from Erickson's DVD Savant internet column.