![]() ![]() 8 Million Ways to Die is the final film of the great talent Hal Ashby, who came up through the editorial ranks, was Norman Jewison’s star ‘hippie’ editor and then shone as one of the brightest directors of the 1970s. I tend to be a booster of some critically orphaned pictures for instance I never saw any reason to dislike Coppola’s The Cotton Club, which I think is entertaining - and I hope they someday put together a longer version. ![]() 1986’s 8 Million Ways to Die is an expensive disaster, a victim of too much talent and creative miscommunication. Well, I don’t know if I’ve seen a disc like this one before– a picture that everybody wants to talk about, but that nobody feels like praising. Lance Hill) from the book by Lawrence Block Written by Oliver Stone, David Lee Henry (R. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Andy Garcia, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks.įilm Editor: Robert Lawrence, Stuart H. Street Date J/ available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Any day that a Jeff Bridges picture doesn’t shine, is a dark day in my book.ġ986 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 115 min. It isn’t the train wreck described in Kino’s candid actor interviews, but we can see only too well why it wasn’t a big winner when new. Tonight on ‘movies we really want to like’ we have Hal Ashby’s final feature, an L.A.- based crime saga with a great cast and spirited direction and. ![]()
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