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...especially in senseless killings and wanton attacks. Fear of the darkened city streets has become a fact of urban life. The memories of bizarre multiple murders linger in the mind-13 people dead in Austin from a sniper's rifle, eight nurses in Chicago killed by a demented drifter. The recollection of the Kennedy assassination remains part of the scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies and on television, murder and torture seem...
...DRIFTER. Director Alex Matter and Photographer Steve Winsten make the ordinary something to celebrate in this fragile film about a young vagabond...
...DRIFTER. Inventive, impressionistic camera work and a memorable score tell a story as thin and fragile as a sea shell about a vagabond hitchhiker...
...DRIFTER. Inventive, impressionistic camera work and a memorable score tell a story as thin and fragile as a seashell about a vagabond hitchhiker...
Produced on a budget of $125,000, The Drifter was one of only three U.S. movies shown at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, won no prize (it was shown out of competition). But for moviegoers who like to look for the emergence of new cinema talents, the film is one to watch. As a screenwriter, Alex Matter needs help. As a director, he needs only another-and better-story...