With the exception of a shot from Twin Peaks that pans down the westside to Ocean Beach, there’s almost nothing of San Francisco in this above average thriller starring Sigourney Weaver (Dr. Helen Hudson), the always compelling Holly Hunter (Inspector MJ Monhan) and an “eyebrows and handcuffs” Dermot Mulroney (Inspector Reuben Goetz).
Category Archives: Film
Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
A Whitehot Night of Hate
Assault on Precinct 13‘s original trailer, repurposed for Shout! Factory’s (sold out) blu ray edition:
Crash Short (425)
Miles found this short film from BBC that incorporates excerpts from Ballard’s experimental novel The Atrocity Exhibition, which prefigures many of the themes from Crash.
Dutch Crunk
This Man is Dangerous
Yaphet Kotto
1939-2021. Truly a king among men.
You are not a loan
Debt is a form of social control.
A short doc by Astra Taylor
Hal Holbrook
1925-2021. Here he is as Father Malone in The Fog (Carpenter 1980).
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