certainly a captioning choice
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New-to-me movies seen in 2023: Forty Guns (1957)
“In the future people like me will be considered freaks.”
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Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Fuller on the set of Forty Guns, released 1957.
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Seen in 2023:
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller), 1957
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Closed off the year with my good friends Jackie, Sammo, my most watched actor of 2022 Yuen Biao, Miss Spain 1979 Lola Forner and Benny “The Jet” Urquidez and a rewatch of Wheels on Meals.
And started the new year with Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns. One of my goals this year is to get more women into my most watched directors and actors in my Letterboxd stats (2022 was almost a total sausagefest in both categories), and there is definitely a woman in this movie. Four, in fact, based on the IMDb credits. That's right, 25% of the women in this movie are visible right up there in that screenshot.
As an aside, one of the other women in that movie is Eve Brent, who Wikipedia tells me is best known for playing Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life, and whose most popular movies on Letterboxd are The Green Mile, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and, uh, Garfield: The Movie. And yes, she wears that visor for most of her screentime.
(Don't believe me? Here's the proof.)
And here are the last four movies I watched in 2022. A Jackie/Sammo/Yuen Biao classic, a Bruceploitation joint, and two pornos. Seems like a fitting end to my viewing history for the year.
Happy new year, folks!
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These are my picks for this months Criterion Collection 50% off sale at Barnes & Noble:
Forty Guns (1957)
Dragon Inn (1967)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
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Barbara Stanwyck packs 'Forty Guns' on Criterion Channel
Barbara Stanwyck packs ‘Forty Guns’ on Criterion Channel
There was no director like Samuel Fuller, the former journalist, pulp writer and soldier who became a director of energetic genre pictures with mad passion and driving energy. He was America’s kino-fist with a tabloid sensibility and his 1957 western Forty Guns (1957) is his purest blast of his cinematic thunder and melodramatic excess.
Barbara Stanwyck stars as the “high riding woman with a…
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