I decided to watch this as its about a local case, and because my local PBS station has been playing this a lot lately. It's part TV film and part documentary. The TV film bits are what you'd expect: flatly shot with a mixed bag of acting abilities. The real highlight is the documentary bits. This is an overlooked bit of American history, and it was fascinating to see interviews with people who lived through this case (already quite old…
I watched this for the first time last month and decided to give it a rewatch because I had a couple of the songs stuck in my head. It has less of a narrative than your usual Peanuts special, being made up of three vignettes. Each chapter has at least one musical number, basically making this a short musical. Its also very 80s, probably more than any of the other Peanuts specials of that decade.
I was tempted to bump…
Watched the longer "gore cut". Very entertaining. Might not deserve 5 stars but I was so entertained that I can't give it anything but that. Really stupid but a lot of fun.
Excellent film! I was worried I had too high of expectations, given the seemingly universal high praise this has received over the past 55 years. Paul Schrader called it a masterpiece and Yukio Mishima likened it to a Greek tragedy. This film is full of sympathetic characters, bound by an often unfortunate code of honor and sense of obligation to that code. This code also clashes with their sense of pride, their friendships, and just their general sense of what…
