Word: woodses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Other begins with a shimmery shot of one of the twin protagonists (played by Chris and Martin Udvarnoky) playing alone in the woods, the sun filtering down through the trees in that peculiarly captivating way that no cameraman can resist. The focus is misty and offputting: who of the...
In the shotput, another powerful American will be missing, but not by choice. Randy Matson, gold medalist in 1968, was nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases...
There is a sense of uneasiness from the outset. Bobby (Ned Beatty), fattest and least fit of the group, takes one look around the deep woods and says: "I think this is where everything finishes up." The country folk are suspicious, violent, many inbred to the point of idiocy. They...
The canoeists have grown gradually more isolated from their smug idea of civilization. This episode of brutality and reprisal severs what few connections remain. Drew (Ronny Cox), the most rational of the four, wants to bring the murdered mountaineer downriver to the police. He believes that they will all be...
The film that John Boorman has fashioned from James Dickey's novel is a magnificent visual experience and an assault on the senses fully as brutal as the river trip. Boorman (Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific) has made the river and the woods characters in themselves.