Buck A Review
(Not as frequent as he’d like) filmmaker Douglas Buck spends a lot of time at the cinema rep house and at home watching old movies. In a new-fangled modern approach to the old index card cataloguing system he used to compulsively follow as a teen, about 4 years ago, Buck started posting a photo or film poster on Facebook for every one of the films he saw. Soon enough, this led to him including the occasional single sentence or brief paragraph write-up. Helped along by the surprise appearance of a small number of seemingly interested thread commenters as well as his own obsessive-compulsive traits, this then (perhaps inevitably) developed into longer form reviews and discussions for each and every one of the films. And here we are. Below will be a mishmash of older entries and current. Feel free to chime in.
The views and opinions expressed in the “Buck a Review” column (and in the comments field) are those of the individual author (or commenter) and not those of Offscreen or any of its partners.
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Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954)
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Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
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Nightbirds (Andy Milligan, 1970)
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Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (Norman Foster, 1955)
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A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
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Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959)
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Midnight (aka, The Backwoods Massacre) (John Russo, 1982)
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Black Girl (aka, Le Noire de…) (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
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The Orphan (aka, Friday the 13th: The Orphan) (John Ballard, 1979) & Ghostkeeper (James Makichuck, 1981)
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Orca (Michael Anderson, 1977)