Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine are Napoleonic warriors enjoying the Russian winter in Ridley Scott’s The Duellists (1977).
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HONOR WILL BE SATISFIED! — Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine in a publicity still for Ridley Scott’s The Duellists (1977) — Wrote Vincent Canby upon its American release in 1978, “‘The Duellists,’ the first major film to open here this year, may well remain one of the most dazzling visual experiences throughout all of 1978. The movie, set during the Napoleonic Wars, uses its beauty much in the way that other movies use soundtrack music, to set mood, to complement scenes and even to contradict them. Sometimes it’s almost too much, yet the camerawork, which is by Frank Tidy, provides the Baroque style by which the movie operates on our senses, making the eccentric drama at first compelling and ultimately breathtaking.”
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Oldboy: It won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, and Choi Min-Sik is iconic as the hammer-wielding Oh Dae-Su, trying to find who imprisoned him in a hotel room for 15 years.
A film I would like to see again. I have yet to finish the Vengeance Trilogy.
Film Comment, Fall 1966.
The Supreme Leader Admiral General Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya with his posse at Cannes.
The Supreme Leader Admiral General Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya arrives at the historic Carlton Hotel in Cannes.
Jim Carrey is uncowed on the cover of Film Comment. July/August 2000.
