According to Walter Murch, who saw some of the Keitel footage, that was the case.

Seconding Seankgallaghers recommendation of ACT OF VIOLENCE.  It really places the dynamics of Film noir fear and loathing while documenting the physical and social changes to Southern California's environment like no other film from the period.

I'm a bit surprised that these film's haven't obtained the same degree of love from cinephiles as film noir.  The late 60s and early seventies just can't be romanticized in the same way as the 40s or fifties, but their use of desaturated color, flattened perspective due to the use of long lenses,reliance on location…

THE MAGICIAN was my start on Bergman, and it intrigued me to check out the other black and white films.  As stated below, HOUR OF THE WOLF and THE VIRGIN SPRING are fairly accessible, although, in terms of tone, the latter, while really good and essential in its own right doesn't strike me as being truly…

I'm finishing this tonight, and I think your assessment is dead on.  I've been reading it in fits and starts, really getting pissed at some of the revelations (particularly the prosecution's suppression of exculpatory evidence found in the CID investigator's notes) and then getting frustrated at the hectoring tone and…

As a MILDRED PIECE fan, I concur.

In the mid 90s I did a lot of research on OUaTiA as part of a Masters project that I eventually changed, which, in hindsight, was a big mistake.  When I got the DVD I realized that I knew a lot more about the movie than Schickel did.

I think that the point made in the argument has some validity, but I'm not sure that it accurately represents what the filmmakers did with the information gleaned from their sources in the intelligence community.  Speaking as a professional historian, it is impossible to sift through all of the data (much of which…

The movie did not change my ideas about slavery perse, but it did change my ideas about the idea that Westerns reflect our ideas about liberation from savagery.  In DJANGO savagery exists in civilization and not in nature.

I was ready by LOGAN'S RUN though.

"It's impossible to ignore the silliness of all of this."

While not on the level of Q&A underrated, check out THE HILL with Sean Connery.

Marvin is kind of the dialectic opposite of John Wayne during this period when it came to craggy men of action.  While the latter's character maintained a certain nobility and conventional sense of moral righteousness, Marvin's roles possessed a certain existential streak in their motives and attitudes towards…

I think he's Haldichman's cousin.

I'm sure it is one and the same.  Guy had a distinctive, if largely under the radar, career in medium to low budget fare.  He did STUNTS with Robert Forster and COMMANDO if I'm not mistaken.

I guess it all balances out in the end, doesn't it.

Yeah, that's called reading.

Elia Kazan remains a pariah in the annals of the anti-communist witch hunt because he was an asshole, not a turncoat.  He resisted naming names until he faced the inevitable contempt charge. He gave HUAC no new names (and only 7 to boot) despite he and his wife's involvement in numerous communist front organizations,…

Well, those are your descriptors, and not mine, and in any case,  the ideas presented don't respond to the thesis of my post.

I don't see how any of these factors mitigate the fact that HUAC and the McCarthy hearings severely damaged American civil liberties, and ultimately weakened the rights fight against progressive political causes in the long run.  While investigations into threats to national security were (and remain) a legitimate…