The Desert Near Cross Tree
The Shooting (1967)
directed by Monte Hellman
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
The way Jack Nicholson props his black-gloved mitts on the horn of his saddle is really more memorable than his performance here; someone wrote it's just as iconic as Easy Rider, but that simply isn't so. Cultural hyperbole is a disservice to "The Shooting," which is, at its heart, a great movie about landscape from the same page as Grizzly Man. The slow-motion edits that close the movie feel dusty and disoriented; instead of an existential narrative, it's a treatment of physical fatigue.
directed by Monte Hellman
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
The way Jack Nicholson props his black-gloved mitts on the horn of his saddle is really more memorable than his performance here; someone wrote it's just as iconic as Easy Rider, but that simply isn't so. Cultural hyperbole is a disservice to "The Shooting," which is, at its heart, a great movie about landscape from the same page as Grizzly Man. The slow-motion edits that close the movie feel dusty and disoriented; instead of an existential narrative, it's a treatment of physical fatigue.
posted by NPK at 9:07 AM
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