Budd Boetticher doc on TCM

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Watch it again when it's rerun if you're a fan; a cut above their usual -- 90 minutes, and written/produced by Dave Kehr. I've seen 4 or 5 of the Randolph Scott films and it made me want to see them again. Eventually.

And they got Eastwood and Tarantino to sit in the pundit screening room.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not sure if TCM is going to run it again, although I believe a slightly shorter version of the same doc is included on the new R1 DVD of Seven Men From Now. It was decent - the interviews with Boetticher were the best. But the first time they cut from the 2000 interview (old man), right back to one from 1971 (middle-aged man) really messed with may head - watching time move backwards like that, what time does to us all - ugh.

It also seemed pretty good at describing that era in Hollywood, the working life reality of it.

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

The Films of Budd Boetticher out on DVD 11/4/08!!!

includes:

The Tall T
Decision at Sundown
Buchanan Rides Alone
Ride Lonesome
Comanche Station

More here:

http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/Product.asp?sku=D30511

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 07:17 (fifteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Watched The Tall T last night, great movie

― badg, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link

Highly recommend this set if you can find at a dece price:

https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/products/five-tall-tales-budd-boetticher-randolph-scott-at-columbia-1957-1960-le

Shame that a different rights holder for 7 Men From Now precludes its inclusion in these kind of collections - it might even be the best of them, tho I've yet to see Buchanan Rides Alone. Got to save at least one Budd/Randolph western for a rainy day.

Indicator also included a pre-Budd, Oscar Boetticher Jr noir from 1945, Escape in the Fog, in their first Columbia Noir box set. Boetticher REALLY disavowed all his early films, but overall this is a typically excellent box from Indicator, and still in print:

https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/products/columbia-noir-1-le?variant=32896474316863¤cy=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&utm_campaign=gs-2020-05-18&utm_source=google&utm_medium=smart_campaign

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link

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