BR: Runaway Train (1985)
Runaway Train is a perfect action-drama, and perhaps the best film produced and released by Cannon Films, a company that succeeded due to its emphasis on neatly packaged B-flicks for the international exploitation market…
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CD: Runaway Train (1985)
For some soundtrack fans, it was a bit of surprise to learn the composer of pioneering synth scores had begun his career with large orchestral scores for John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) and Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal (1982)…
May-October Behaviour in the Bedroom: Stay As You Are (1978) + Breezy (1973)
Two tales of May-October lovers: Alberto Lattuada’s Stay as You Are / Così come sei (1978) on Blu from Cult Epics + Clint Eastwood’s Breezy (1973) from Universal.
BR: Stay As You Are / Così come sei (1978)
Perhaps an obvious attempt to riff on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Tango in Paris (1972), producer Giovanni Bertolucci and director Alberto Lattuada delivered this variant of a May-October fling that’s peppered with a dash of possible incest…
DVD: Breezy (1973)
In what may be one of Clint Eastwood’s oddest directorial choices, Breezy feels like an attempt to bridge the generation gap between flower children and grumpypantsters by going for extremes in this early January / early December romance in which high school graduate Breezy falls for a presumably late forties / early fifties realtor in Laurel Canyon, California…
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