Bill Munny (a name to conjure with) is face down in pig shit when we first see him. He’s a bad farmer, but has a natural facility for killing people — a vocation to which he returns in a quest that combines both profit and justice. Or so he chooses to believe.
Working from an exemplary screenplay by David Webb Peoples (who also wrote Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys), Clint Eastwood fashioned one of the indelible revisionist Westerns, a much more realistic and sour take on the familiar cowboy-avenger theme. Handsomely shot and superbly cast (Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris in support of Eastwood himself), the film presents an American frontier irreparably scarred by violence. It’s a sorry tale, in which one injustice spirals into many; mercenary values and multiple misunderstandings culminate in a mythic shoot out underpinned with a tragic sense of loss and regret.
This dark, melancholic film is a reminder of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
A stunning, dark Western that may stand as the actor/director’s summation of the form.
David Ansen, Newsweek
A classic Western for the ages.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
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Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
USA
1992
English
4 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman)
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Credits
Producer
Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter
David Webb Peoples
Cinematography
Jack N. Green
Editor
Joel Cox
Original Music
Lennie Niehaus
Production Design
Henry Bumstead
90s, Baby!
Ten years. 11 weeks. 90 films from the 1990s. This summer, 90’s Baby! takes a deep dive into a defining decade of cinema.
Lessons of Darkness
Werner Herzog's unforgettable documentary reveals the unfolding disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames in 1991 as a sweeping inferno of mesmerizing power.
Beau Travail
Inspired by Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Claire Denis' transfixing Beau Travail is set in East Africa. Sgt Galoup (Denis Lavant) reflects on his time in the French Foreign Legion, and the impact of the handsome Sentain (Gregoire Colin).
Three Kings
George Clooney headlines David O Russell's bold, brazen attempt to get to grips with the immediate aftermath of Operation Desert Storm, as 4 US soldiers try to liberate a missing shipment of gold amidst the chaos and carnage.
But I'm a Cheerleader
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is the perfect All-American Girl, or so she thinks. That is until she’s shipped off to conversion therapy. This pitch black comedy is wrapped in a saccharine bow, featuring the icon herself, RuPaul, as a conversion counsellor.
Magnolia
This deeply personal 1999 California opus is ripe for rediscovery. Mapping the emotional traumas of half-a-dozen major characters as they crisscross the San Fernando Valley in search of either recognition or reconciliation, it's PTA's riskiest gamble.
Election
Tracy Flick (Reece Witherspoon) is running for Student President, but Mr. McAllister (Matthew Broderick) has other ideas... This remarkably sour millennial comedy from Alexander Payne (The Holdovers; Sideways; The Descendents) hits twice as hard today.
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is an assassin, but he's also an existential loner who adheres to his personal code. Despite the thriller trappings, this is really a lampoon of that genre, and a melancholy reverie for the cultural melting pot we call home.
The Straight Story
David Lynch goes a different direction in this linear Midwestern about a septuagenarian (Richard Farnsworth) who drives nearly 400km on a lawnmower to visit his ailing brother (Harry Dean Stanton).
90s Surprise Film
The 90s movie we have all been missing... Join us for a celebratory wake for this year's 90s, Baby series! What you will be seeing is top secret (no, not Top Secret!, that was 1984) but it will be at least 26 years old and it will be new to this series.
The Wind Will Carry Us
Kiarostami's dry comic masterpiece follows a Tehrani film team's thwarted attempts to document a traditional Kurdish funeral... Trouble being, there's no one to bury, and, worse, virtually no cell service...
Fight Club
1999 was a very good year for movies, but nothing captured millennial angst quite so vividly as David Fincher's bruising black comedy about what it means to be a man today. This modern classic does everything short of rattling your seat to get a reaction.