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Fun fact, Bob Pigeon in My Own Private Idaho is the writer/director of Winter Kills. Unfortunately, its purposely splintered storyline, and its minefield of Sound: Excellent British label, Powerhouse Films’ Indicator Series, is releasing Director William Richert’s Winter Kills (1979) on a limited edition 4K Blu-ray. The decadence on view is cynical, and somewhat trite. Not really caring about anyone is less of a plus (the trade off you make with fantastical plot developments) but the film is never less than entertaining even if every other scene, you say "Whoah. That isn't at all the The stories of Union 'organizers' shutting down the picture are This trailer with a gravelly voiceover (though not that gravelly voiceover) is a pretty good sell. handsome set; I'd only seen the film on television and I think this is the first widescreen video Perhaps this was the result of the shoot starting with enthusiasm and gusto in 1976 and then being broken up by money troubles and union issues. Candidate nevertheless went over the heads of 1962 audiences, who preferred the no-brainer Yes, there's some repetition and some really trivial trivia but how could a film with this level of reputation get past my voracious 'must-see-all-the-good-stuff made in the 70s', appetite? is a pan up the promotional artwork. You get an idea of what you're in for but no sense of the comedy or satire as elliptical as it is. There's so much fine work in Winter Kills, it's hard to know where to begin. It's the first film to actually declare bankruptcy with a cast and crew that would set you back 50 million today before you loaded a single 35mm film magazine. Must have led a sheltered life. Note: the Sight and Sound Review excerpted in the booklet indicates that Winter Kills did open in the UK, in 1985. Video: Excellent to intercede and get the coat back. Finally, there's Eli Wallach who took on the Jack Ruby role in the mirrored Kennedy story. to little effect. flashy movie stars in bizarre roles, makes it an extremely difficult movie to understand, perhaps accounting "~Hal Erickson Everybody on the film who could intervene had simply vanished. escapism of James Bond. It wasn't long before we had 'visitors' in the form of white-haired men in dark glasses, white shoes and natty She makes a terrific observation that well-known film actors could reassure an audience by popping up every now and again, that all is well even if you feel you may not be following the plot. Berenson has a bit part in Winter Kills (as a morgue attendant) but is probably more morbidly famous as being a victim in one of the crashed planes on September 11th 2001. Bridges jams his dressing gown on, leaves frame right and then we cut to a series of seven shots of Nick galloping on a horse (can one gallop on anything else?) If we're Winter Kills opened to positive (if at times querulous (The President's Analyst) and found its highest point in The Parallax View, Winter Kills is The engagingly likeable Jeff Bridges spends much of his time on You'll know it when you hear it). After finding it, Nick's aides are all murdered in ridiculously quick succession. luxury, from the corporate oil tanker to the swank hotel suites and snooty restaurants. From Alex Cox, the director of Repo Man. There are fourteen vertically-scrolled screen's worth (and I have a big screen) of trivia in Winter Kills' IMdb entry. always convinced are listening in the next room. Film grain is never an issue. Richert is a real storyteller. Let's just say things do not go either smoothly or in any way whatsoever predictably. the truth of the assassination. They will pile falsehood on top of falsehood until you can't tell a lie from the truth – and you won't even want to. Seeing how genuine the regard and affection both star and director have for each other is rather special. Many years later the assassinated President's half brother, Nick, an oil tanker captain is presented with a heavily bandaged man who claims to have taken the second shot and knows where the rifle was stashed. Richert mentions actress/photographer and ex-wife of Anthony Perkins, Berry Berenson. Sadly, what this means is a drama / action film made by the comedically inept. Who Killed 'Winter Kills'? have been confusing, but it at least gave us the implicit nod, that what we were watching might knew the assistant wardrobe person who, as part of her job, personally signed for the borrowed Stars Jeff Bridges. Frankenheimer, was a progressive black comedy about conspiracy in a 2, The docu and voiceover help us appreciate the film's sterling production values, with Vilmos Zsigmond The visual element (on radio?) I love how he gives his all to the part, flouncing around with an open bath robe, not seeming to give two hoots how he appears at the age of seventy-three in scarlet budgie smugglers. confession was a fake, and Kegan's girlfriend really was a magazine editor and not a deep-cover agent. Drama 1978 1 hr 37 min ... Director. It's well worth a look but try to watch it with a friend. A man with the will to kill his own sons to get ahead, and the power to cover up anything, isn't This is a none too rare instance of the movie being smarter than the reviewer. Winter Kills. Boone's drinking, Sterling Hayden's pot-smoking in a Manhattan hotel, and Liz Taylor's leopard coat Elizabeth Taylor appears uncredited as one "Lola Comante." That's Winter Kills in a nutshell. The film had a lot of brothers and sisters in the conspiracy and paranoia genre at the time. wild goose chases that keep us thoroughly confused. Elizabeth Taylor appears uncredited as one "Lola Comante. By selling the distribution rights to his new comedy, he was able to raise enough money to complete Winter Kills and, after a two year hiatus, the film was back on. leopard coat from a top The skyscraper showdown at the end has ten seconds to adjust to the sight of him (probably missing any essential dialogue that may be 3. After having seen it, the experience is not dissimilar to watching a very enthusiastic jigsaw enthusiast take several pieces from twenty-four widely diverse puzzles and go about trying to make them not only fit together but also have the whole picture make some sort of sense once 'completed'. I prefer the original theatrical ending because the future seems more promising. This extra includes 27 colour behind the scenes shots followed by 11 Front of House Black and White Stills with the first signed by John Huston and another showing the sexual clinch between two naked actors now oddly clothed. The transfer of Winter Kills is beautifully-enhanced and brings out the full impact of every The DVD looks extraordinary – I was simply stunned by the quality of the transfer. lack of sinister ambition sets him apart from everyone else in this overpopulated picture, and Bridges' happening here, with Nick Kegan's every contact getting killed soon thereafter (or so we're told, by It actually gets a bit scary: how RS. Perkins performs the kind of inspired cameo that makes you shake your head he couldn't have broken free of the "Psycho" mold. Everyone else comes under the heading of one-scene irrelevance or purposeful misdirection. play real war games in real tanks. There are 10 press photos, a synopsis and 19 pages spread over 9 screens of production notes, details of the actors and crew, and notes on the script. Erin Gray peppered here and there as various sultry callgirls, adding more spice to the director's Despite how you might feel about the finished project, there doesn't seem to be any question of how committed the cast and crew were to this real oddity. character. Richert was in his early 30s on his directorial debut and almost every story about the making of the film reflects well on him. That appears to be what's Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate, in the stylish but methodical hands of John Impressively produced, Winter Kills was a jinxed production Beverly Hills furrier. It's as sane as a straitjacketed masochist in a padded cell. When that doesn't happen, we just This, however, is the only predictable element of this mesmerizingly mazelike yarn. Savant can't judge if the dissatisfaction with Winter Kills is because of the impenetrability Nick Kegan is played by an impossibly young 'Dude', aka Jeff Bridges. The all-star cast turn in fun performances, OK. Richert proudly says that Toshiro Mifune's tiny bit is valuable - if John Huston's valet is the It strings together most of the principal conspiracy  'theories' that popped up in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There is a large flashback section in 1960 with Eli Wallach, mostly told through rushed voceover, Why Pa Kegan (or Cerruti) should think Nick will not simply write down what The quote at the end of Billson's piece has an alarming connection to the quote Slarek prefaced his latest 2019 round up with (from Chernobyl). Fourteen. The negative aspect of this is that you can't care for any of the characters as much as you might in a more conventional film. Each fingers the other as the arch-fiend responsible for unreliable sources). Winter Kills' storytelling style is the narrative equivalent of Winter Kills is an extraordinary oddity that may all be down to the source material by novelist Richard Condon. Can't recall the last time I saw naked breasts in a trailer. the same author's wild take on the Kennedy assassination became this post-Watergate black comedy. As a thriller, it meanders a bit too wildly and as a satire, it's hardly biting but as entertainment, you won't find another movie anything like it. Blu-ray: Winter Kills (1979) Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon, Winter Kills is one of those films that Indicator excel in: a ‘lost’ film, unfamiliar yet on watching you can’t believe you’ve never seen it before. Perhaps in my arrogance, I ignored it (it bombed rather badly on theatrical release and being swiftly withdrawn by its distributor didn't help its commercial prospects) or I simply never made contact with it. Anthony Perkins, whose both arms were almost broken by Bridges using the wrong prop (ouch), plays Cerruti, a late seventies information master, a data wrangler with huge resources who maintains the obscenely rich's status quo. His larger role was cut due to illegibility issues. a wildly disjointed thriller about the vain attempts of a brother of a slain President to get to 1. This is how the planet runs in Winter Kills. Giuseppe Tornatore’s romantic ode to the movies charmed America, convincing theater-goers that little Italian kids are the cutest in the world. Richert rewrote scenes and cut out expensive locations to complete the film. Winter Kills The writer and director William Richert is simply not very good and in HIS directors cut, … Adding to the rest of the talent in front of the camera, this was a dream cast, each famous name, once committed, prompting snorts of incredulous surprise from Richert's young leading man. As mentioned the cast is just jaw-dropping. credible enough. with the beautiful backdrop of Death Valley in wide shots and closer ones. 1973's literal Executive Action had made the killing a plot by right-wing Texas millionaires, It contains all the craziness of the film in which it features while giving a flavour of the whole in one small sequence. The maid fussing over the unmade bed suddenly rushes at Nick on the snowy balcony, thrusts a bed sheet over his head and tries to hurl him off the building. each. Every time it attempts to be funny or hip or quirky, it simply becomes ridiculous. that only barely got made. people, even movie stars, with loose tongues? In this director's cut of the 1987 cult classic, four hapless bank robbers bury their loot and attempt to hide out in a deserted desert town, but very soon find out that the town is not really deserted. "Winter Kills" exemplifies this. She said that when the production shut down, Liz refused to return the coat. him locate and eliminate everyone living with a clue to his wicked past. Richert rewrote scenes and cut out expensive locations to complete the film. 2 talking about this. Most cineastes can make a good stab at humming both Lawrence of Arabia's main theme and Lara's theme from Doctor Zhivago. Hmm. he knows, is the failing of both conspiracy movies, and real-life conspiracies as well. Winter Kills boasts some exceptional acting by John Huston and Anthony Perkins and Dorothy Malone. There could be no take two. First time director William Richert sounds like one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, a man who was smart enough to surround himself with so much tested talent in front of and behind the camera, so that whatever he ended up with would have been interesting. It took almost three years to finish after a long list of calamities that would have made most filmmakers crawl back to their beds and whimper for an entire season. By selling the distribution rights to his new comedy, he was able to raise enough money to complete Winter Kills and, after a two year hiatus, the film was back on. This is a joy from start to a particularly lovely finish. really cornered, and therefore shouldn't do what he does. (2003): retrospective documentary on the making of the film, featuring Richert, actors Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer, director of photography Vilmos Zsigmond, and production designer Robert Boyle (37' 51") The Manhattan siren is a hot lay in bed, but a cold adventuress I have to admit only getting all this on a second viewing. natural charm is what makes the film watchable. In fact, "Winter Kills" teems with offbeat characterizations that might flutter off into self-absorbed zaniness if not for Jeff Bridges in a competent everyman role. I wasn't aware that the crew were only one week away from finishing the shoot when the Hollywood union IATSE shut down the production. Leonard Goldberg Producer. He remarks that the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor divorce was notable for how much one wanted to leave to the other. Take it seriously!" Little Salvatore Cascio grows up in a projection booth under the life-tutelage of kindly Philippe Noiret. soft-porn) producers. telling of the story couldn't be better. Arrow presents the theatrical version of this Best Foreign Picture Oscar winner in 4K Ultra HD. Spielberg's first choice for Quint in Jaws, Sterling Hayden, plays a deranged former political rival, Dawson. He's the nominal centre of the action, the puppet jerked around by circumstance and characters all looking out for themselves. In 1976, he'd not yet achieved that level of acclaim but he'd already shot John Boorman's Deliverance, Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Spielberg's debut feature The Sugarland Express. told later in the film that some of Kegan's crazy adventures, such as his absurd tank-battle With Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach. effect we get when watching the film. John Williams was establishing himself as top dog after Star Wars and while Jerry Goldsmith was hovering near the apex of his profession, Jarre had a number of very famous scores to his name, most of them hummable... No cynicism implied but it does help if an audience can remember your music. Reviewed: March 22, 2003, 1. Packaging: Keep case Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Anne Billson, archival accounts of the making of the film, Richert on Winter Kills, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits (note: This is second-hand info, 25 years old) Return, Review Staff | About DVD Talk | Newsletter Subscribe | Join DVD Talk Forum It's natural in a conspiracy film that nothing can be trusted. willing to believe that the Powers That Be control the banks and everything else in such detail And, no. Daniel H. Blatt Producer. the rules of the plasterer's union. About. One way to explain Winter Kills is to see it as an updated Confidential Report still working. feel lost. Richert hired him on the cusp of global recognition and he doesn't disappoint. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. There is a scene in the film that is almost a microcosm of the film in miniature. (the best thing in the film, next to Bridges) weaves crazy verbal webs that really do pull us Screaming Flower is a wild psychedelic safari exploration of Simbal Karma born in New York, USA. This, however, is the only predictable element of this mesmerizingly mazelike yarn. checquered suits, snooping around and intimidating us with questions. The relationship between father and son in the film is best illustrated by an extraordinary segue and one imagines an expensive one. Bridges really can ride and when he's far enough away from his father, he leaps off the horse and with as much frustration he can vent, screams out towards the obscenely large house, "You stink, Pa! At first I thought he was galloping off to another house where his father would be. blind alleys. Crazy millionaires Behind all the fancy plot footwork, the rest of the film is cartoonishly obvious. But it was simply too early to fully capture the public It is, however, maddeningly difficult to follow. The original mono audio is fine and legibility is ninety-nine per cent. Every time it attempts to be funny or hip or quirky, it simply becomes ridiculous. Producer Fred Caruso deserves some major credit keeping all the bad news off his neophyte director's shoulders and incurring the wrath of the unions. The film holds a score of 87% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 15 reviews, with a rating average of 7.04 out of 10. Jeff Bridges stands as normal enveloped by a whirlwind of caricatures and overblown situations. Winter Kills Director's Cut. impenetrably Mabusian Anthony Perkins. Things Happening in Secret (2020): critic and writer Glenn Kenny explores the history and legacy of conspiracy thrillers (30' 56") at some level make sense. imagination - the first Kennedy assassination was still a year away. that what we do, write, and say is irrelevant, than perhaps Winter Kills is dead-on accurate. We're Staring Belinda Bauer, Eli Wallach, John Huston and Dorothy Malone. In the re-issue Richert replaces the opening cue (see Commentary Review) makes some trims, adds some more Elizabeth Taylor and inserts a new ending which is presented here as a 4:3 bleached out video blow up as no surviving film materials exist of this scene. affair, are world-class Hollywood gossip. Winter Kills is at once, surprising, baffling, exhilarating, labyrinthine, simplistic and exciting. drug use, mob money, and even the murder of one of the producers. version. 'Wild Bill' Richert on Winter Kills by Richard T. Johnson is a 1982 career-wide interview that excerpts Richert's time writing and directing the film. I'm not going to spoil it for you. I'm assuming it's one or the other? On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, First time director William Richert sounds like one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, a man who was smart enough to surround himself with so much tested talent in front of and behind the camera, so that whatever he ended up with would have been interesting. Perkins Full Review. In this show, everything we see might Robert Boyle talks about the crew's enthusiasm for the project, which was The adage that if a movie is big enough, nothing can stop its production, The reason I'm unfamiliar with Winter Kills probably has more to do with how relatively disconnected we all were in 1979, that and the fact that there was no theatrical release listing for the UK. First of all, there's Vilmos Zsigmond, the acclaimed Hungarian born cinematographer who won an Oscar for his work on Close Encounters and a year later, a BAFTA for his cinematography of The Deer Hunter. Kenny's mid shot piece to camera presentation is informative, entertaining and somewhat surprising (if visually a little lacklustre). be a con or a fake, and everything we hear is a lie. Copyright © var now = new Date(); document.write(now.getFullYear()) MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. even more. Boyle's association with the 'Master of Suspense' is a feather in both his and director Richert's cap. secretly controls, it seems, the destiny of the country. needs - on golf courses, in hospital rooms. Director cut on the LE Indicator blu ray. Audio commentary with writer-director William Richert (2003) Robert Sterling Producer. There are new and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Though technically a work of fiction, Winter Kills (1979, R) is the maddest and most entertaining of Kennedy conspiracy thrillers, a wild kaleidoscope of clashing theories directed with wit and performed with gusto by an astounding cast. went wildly off-course. Perkin's Cerruti is an excellent reverse of his 'K' in Orson Welles Winter Kills opened to positive (if at times querulous They must have said goodbye and went their separate ways in 1979 but twenty-four years later, here they are and the relationship is so real, no actors could act that. from Panavision). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2014. As a reviewer (or more accurately at Cineoutsider, a supporter of cinema), you may know something is up with the production when during its three-year delivery period one of its two producers is executed by the Mafia and the other goes to prison for 40 years for drugs offences. Dick Tracy-league gangsters hulk around looking sinister, Other tales, of Richard The colours are vibrant, the contrast spot on and there is an almost supernatural absence of physical damage. A final aside - genre fans can see femme favorites Tisa Farrow, Candace Rialson, Camilla Sparv, and Bellicose John Huston as Kegan's Machiavellian, overbearing father is fun to watch, as is the Seventeen years later, when paranoid conspiracy thrillers had already worn out their welcome, Supplements: Commentary by William Richert, interviews with Richert and Jeff Bridges, Answering machines were futuristic devices the size of two shoe boxes in 1976 (when shooting started). 's wealth and power spars with an heir who takes the wealth for granted but not the venal immorality surgically stapled to the power. Reunion (2003): Richert and Bridges reflect on the film's colourful production (9' 07") A political Alice Through the Looking Glass populated by stereotyped gangsters & His score for Winter Kills is not as memorable and a little sparse. Kenny leads us through the novels and films that explored the subject and as far as I can tell, he's pretty comprehensive. 4-hour cut. He gives us the gen on his experiences with Elizabeth Taylor, Sterling Hayden and Richard Boone. LG. There is something ever so 'off' about Winter Kills, whether it's the narrative that careers pinball-like across the US or some of the performances that seem as if they've been directed to be 'whacky'. I'll leave you with teasers… Cinema a la Rembrandt, casting a bookstore assistant, using the 'N' word as being right for a certain character and Richert's final remark that he's thankful to Anchor Bay (DVD distributors in 2003) who were "…smart enough to release it.". It whips through the entire movie leaving nothing to the imagination (if you know the film). They were forced to suspend the shoot for what turned out to be years. with other cast members like Belinda Bauer, to tell the story of an independent that Pronounced 'Rich-Ut', the writer/director dives in with a Gatling gun torrent of information from his adoration of Maurice Jarre (and yet in the 'director's cut' the front title is replaced with a well known piece of pomp and circumstance music, Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke. Fred C. Caruso Producer. "Winter Kills" exemplifies this. * https://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/the-conspiracy-movie-financed-by-drug-money-and-destroyed-by-its-distributors/, Despite a stellar cast, some serious behind the scenes talent and being based on a book by the author of, https://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/the-conspiracy-movie-financed-by-drug-money-and-destroyed-by-its-distributors/, Commentary with writer-director William Richert, William Richert and Jeff Bridges interview. She had to change jobs - happily, to production design, where she's That's the danger of 'stuff you know'. Here he's required to speak English, which the revered actor learned phonetically. Movie legends have bizarre walk-ons; when Elizabeth Taylor has no lines and is on-screen The Big Sleep may interview with the Sterling Hayden character, were staged to deceive him. of its story, or Richert's sometimes inadequate direction. It's never less than entertaining but as a satisfying satirical thriller, it just falls a little short more from its glorious ambition than any failure of imagination. I doubt any first time director had as much luck but from the extras on this disc, it seems like the man deserved the luck. His commentary mirrors the insanity of his movie. into a nightmarish conspiratorial vortex: he's the string-puller that Kafka's doomed heroes are Else comes under the life-tutelage of kindly Philippe Noiret stuck in the world ) from Starz / Anchor 's... 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