We've got another overstuffed episode this time around as we take a look at two films from 1967.
First up is BONNIE AND CLYDE, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. It's a romanticized (Claude can spell it, but he can't say it) version of the story of a pair of outlaws who came to a violent end (as so many of them do). It's also the source of a bunch of tropes, from a Film Language standpoint. But that's not to take away from the impact that our other film, THE GRADUATE, had on the moviemaking industry. It was only the second film credit for Mike Nichols as a director, and while it wasn't the film debut of either Dustin Hoffman or Katharine Ross, it's the film that pushed both of them into greater prominence.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
In our next episode we check out two very different views of films based on the work of Elmore Leonard. First we'll be chatting about JACKIE BROWN (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier plus a bunch of nobodies (heh). And then it's on to OUT OF SIGHT (1998), directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. Neither of them really burned up the box office but they're both a great ride.