Archive for tag: Burt Kennedy
6 November, 2008 (00:57) | Budd Boetticher, Interviews, Westerns, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker
Burt Kennedy has a long resume as a director, with such credits to his name as The Rounders, Welcome to Hard Times and Support Your Local Gunfighter. But he started his film career as a screenwriter under contract to John Wayne and made his reputation with four brilliant westerns that Budd Boetticher directed and Randolph [...]
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3 November, 2008 (00:30) | Budd Boetticher, Directors, Essays, Westerns, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker
“They can lick you (which they can’t) or they can fire you, and once you know that you’re not afraid of anybody.” – Budd Boetticher on producers, 1988 interview
Budd Boetticher stumbled into the movies in the fluky way so many of the two-fisted directors of the silent days landed in the director’s chair, but with [...]
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2 November, 2008 (00:30) | Budd Boetticher, Directors, Interviews, Westerns, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker
My first contact with Budd Boetticher was in 1987. I was a graduate student in film studies at the University of Oregon and I thought I was getting his agent’s phone number from the DGA. I found out very quickly that it was his home number when he answered personally. He was an affable [...]
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1 November, 2008 (11:05) | Budd Boetticher, Directors, Film Reviews, Westerns, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson
The following essay, adapted from a review published in Queen Anne News (Seattle), appears in the new anthology from the National Society of Film Critics, The B List, edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson (Da Capo Press).
The making of Seven Men from Now was a modest enterprise. John Wayne’s old Batjac production company had [...]
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