One of the most beautiful and incisive American films of the seventies, The Culpepper Cattle Co. follows a cattle drive from Texas in the summer of 1866 that doesn’t make it to Fort Lewis, Colorado. The sole survivor of the battle between a landowner and his thugs on the one hand and the cowboys on […]
Daily Archives: August 24, 2009
Heavily censored for its U.S. release (and it is this version with which we Americans are stuck 80 years later), E. A. Dupont’s atmospheric Variety recasts an adulterous pair as a married couple (a fabricated title card identifies them as such), a trapeze act, thereby losing the springboard symbolism of their moral slipperiness and risk. […]
Dennis Grunes 