 |
| The real stars of White Line Fever |
Jonathan Kaplan's
White Line Fever, from 1975, is an above average B picture. Kaplan's liberal populism, best expressed in
Heart Like a Wheel and
The Accused, meshes well with this tale of independent truckers fighting the powers that be. Kaplan, rather than being hamstrung by the formulaic plot, uses the gnarled southwest settings to accurately portray blue collar struggles. The picture captures the area and the era well. Kay Lenz has little to do and Jan Michael Vincent is always a liability, but the supporting cast is strong: L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, Slim Pickens. Dick Miller plays a character named Corman and Joe Dante gets a shout-out. No claims of artistic significance can be staked to
White Line Fever, but auteurist leaning aficionados will appreciate Kaplan's efforts to elevate this genre film. Too bad they couldn't afford the great Merle Haggard song.
Zoey Deutch and Mark Rylance in The Outfit Graham Moore's The Outfit limits its parameters to one set, the store of a bespoke tailor in...
1946 - 2025 Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies depict it in a completely flat wa...
Jeon Jong-seo I had very low expectations for Chun-Hyun Lee's Ballerina , an offshoot/ripoff of the John Wick films, but was pleasantly ...
Hugh Grant Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' Heretic is a slightly above average horror flick. The film's initial premise is intriguing, ...
No comments:
Post a Comment