Steve Tesich’s Breaking Away (1979) and American Flyers (1985)
Reviews of Steve Tesich’s two cycling films, the Oscar-winning Breaking Away (1979) on Blu from Twilight Time, and American Flyers (1985) on DVD from Warner Home Video.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
BR: Breaking Away (1979)
Dubbed by one of the film’s actors as a production akin to ‘catching lightening in a bottle’ and transcending box office odds by being unconventional and critically and financially successful, Breaking Away is also the classic sleeper hit – a movie that few expected would become not only popular, but remain beloved more that 35 years since its theatrical release…
DVD: American Flyers (1985)
Whether screenwriter Steve Tesich was compelled to revisit the world of cycling or was lured by producers to pen a script building on the success of his Oscar-winning Breaking Away (1979), the resulting American Flyers may have been a modest success upon its original release but…
Richard Stanley on Blu: Lost Soul (2014) + Hardware (1990)
Reviews of David Gregory’s superb making-of documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) + Stanley’s feature film debut Hardware (1990), both from Severin.
BR: Lost Soul – The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
After switching from directing music videos to feature films with his punk, post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Hardware (1990), Richard Stanley would follow-up with Dust Devil (1992), and what was supposed to be his Hollywood debut, The Island of Dr. Moreau, a revisionist version of H.G. Wells’ novel…
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