Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich discuss two movies in each episode. This time it's a couple of unusual romps by two iconic and singular British directors, Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway.
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Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich discuss two movies in each episode. This time it's a couple of unusual romps by two iconic and singular British directors, Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway.
Conversations 5- on 'Forty Guns' dir. Samuel Fuller
The Double MacGuffin
42 minutes 38 seconds
5 years ago
Conversations 5- on 'Forty Guns' dir. Samuel Fuller
From one point of view, it can look like a collection of horse opera clichés. A pace or two to the side to let the light hit it from another angle, and it is Sophocles set against the unfinished clapboard fronts of a prairie pioneer town instead of the columns of a Mycenaean palace. Are the two bath scenes just non-sequitur comedy skits with cowboy song musical accompaniment, or are they choral interludes in a play of destiny?
The Double MacGuffin
Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich discuss two movies in each episode. This time it's a couple of unusual romps by two iconic and singular British directors, Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway.