Oct 4th
Deliverance**
US 1972. Warner Bros/Elmer Enterprises. 109m. Panavision
A canoeing trip for four city workers in the Deep South turns into a fight for survival.
Primal, semi-allegorical forest melodrama on a theme the director returned to, in this case hurling his courageous actors through real-life rapids, accompanied by a sometimes indigestible but always forceful narrative.
Written by: James Dickey, from his novel.
Producer/Director: John Boorman.
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Bill McKinney, James Dickey.
Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond.
Music: Eric Weissberg.
+ LEWIS (Burt Reynolds): "Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything."
Preceded by:
Superman in
Billion Dollar Limited**
(US 1941. 9m.; Superman and Lois Lane foil gold bullion robbers on a speeding train.; d: Dave Fleischer; voices of Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander.)
A canoeing trip for four city workers in the Deep South turns into a fight for survival.
Primal, semi-allegorical forest melodrama on a theme the director returned to, in this case hurling his courageous actors through real-life rapids, accompanied by a sometimes indigestible but always forceful narrative.
Written by: James Dickey, from his novel.
Producer/Director: John Boorman.
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Bill McKinney, James Dickey.
Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond.
Music: Eric Weissberg.
+ LEWIS (Burt Reynolds): "Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything."
Preceded by:
Superman in
Billion Dollar Limited**
(US 1941. 9m.; Superman and Lois Lane foil gold bullion robbers on a speeding train.; d: Dave Fleischer; voices of Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander.)
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