Movie review - "Choose Me" (1984) ***

 Alan Rudolph's one hit - a minor hit but it made a splash, helped by having some names in the cast (Keith Carradine, Rae Dawn Chong, Lesley Ann Downe, Genevieve Bujold). Carradine is another f*boi sleeping with Chong, Downe and Bujold. Chong is married to Patrick Bauchau (excellent) who is sleeping with Downe, who listens to sex talk back Bujold who moves in with Downe without saying who she is.

It's familiar to Welcome to LA  - there's even a sountrack of the one artist. It's always watchable. Carradine's character is unstable, so is Downe's, so I guess it'll work out. There was something lacking in this for me - wasn't quite sure. Maybe it didn't feel like a progression from Welcome to LA. 

Movie review - "A Man Called Horse" (1970) **1/2

 The public liked it - more sympathetic to Indians than normal though it distorts as much as traditional Western, throws in some exotic ceremonies, and is still about a white man who manages to survive, shag a native girl, and become a leader. Richard Harris holds the screen, the direction is poor, the colour enjoyable.

Movie review - "Remember My Name" (1978) ***

 Alan Rudolph's fourth feature, though second "proper" one, is full of interesting moments, including a lead for Geraldine Chaplin and Tony Perkins as a stud opposite his wife Betty Berensen. Perkins and Berensen are married when his ex Chaplin gets out of prison and chaos ensues.

The film keeps you guessing.  No one feels entirely well cast but everyone works. There's an unsettling mood of madness, violence and sex. It's got a standard set up but it's given a non-standard production.

Movie review - "Welcome to LA" (1976) ***

 Washed over me and I went with it. Sort of Son of Nashville with Keith Carradine as a fboi musician once more, only this time in LA. Carradine is back in LA and old flame Viveca Linsfors wouldn't mind shagging him but instead he shags real estate agent Sally Kellerman (married to John Considine), a receptionist Diahnne Abbott, model Lauren Hutton (mistress to Carradine's dad Denver Pyle), and Geraldine Chaplin (married to Harvey Keitel). Kellerman and Considine try to hook up with other people but wind up together. Sissy Spacek is seeing Keitel and offers to sleep with Considine for money.

Carradine has a silly beard. The movie has a wonderful tone. Spacek goes topless and Chaplin full frontal - the seventies! 

Movie review - "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965) *** (rewatching)

 So much great stuff I wish it was better - John Wayne being manly, Dean Martin as his brother (great team), the concept, the locations, the colour, Dennis Hopper as a coward (fantastic work), George Kennedy as a gun man. Henry Hathaway. But too much much is underwhelming - Earl Holliman (in the film to die basically but I wish he'd had more to play), Michael Anderson (less good than original choice Tommy Kirk), bland Martha Hyer.

Lots of fun still - just could have been a classic, that's all. 

Movie review - "Southern Comfort" (1981) ****1/2 (rewatching)

 The most incomptent soldiers ever? Stealing boats, losing maps, going nutty, yelling, lighting fires, counting chickens before hatched... It feels very real. Magnificently shot and acted. I love the relationship between Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine.

Movie review - "The Warriors" (1979) **** (re-watching)

 Great fun and style. Love the differentiation in the warriors - the gay artist (well, coded gay), the dumb big white guy, cocky Ajax, taciturn Swan, the whimpy white guy who gets knocked out. Spooky sequences like the baseball furies and the Lizzies though I have a soft spot for the Orphans, desperate to prove they're cool.