WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WALK LIKE A DRAGON
Blog In the past, Sheila Ellis has brought several unexpected films to Western Night. She did so again with WALK LIKE A DRAGON (1960), a cross-cultural triangle love story. A tough-as-nails freight company owner, picking up supplies in San Francisco in 1870, stops a young...WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BUCK AND THE PREACHER
BlogFor this Movie Night session, Kirk Ellis chose BUCK AND THE PREACHER (1972), a lively blend of Western action and social commentary about…
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HEARTLAND
Blog It was Johnny D. Boggs’s turn to select the film for this Western Night session and he brought HEARTLAND (1979) based on LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER, a memoir by Elinor Pruitt Stewart about her experiences in the unforgiving wilds of Wyoming. Set in 1910, Elinor...WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: LILIES OF THE FIELD
Blog A charming contemporary Western, LILIES OF THE FIELD (1963) was my choice for our latest Western Night Movie gathering. It tells the story of a traveling handyman named Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) who, while driving through the Arizona desert, needs water for his...WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR
BlogIt was with great regret that I heard that Academy Award-winning film director William Friedkin died yesterday, August 7, 2023. The cause was heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87.