Boetticher

For some inexplicable reason, Wilcoxon said, “Budd Boetticher.”

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

Whatever it is, it's not one of the high points of the Scott/Boetticher canon.

Archive 2007-06-24 Bill Crider 2007

Here, Boetticher is working in the wide open spaces of the West, resulting in some of his most stunning images.

Ride Lonesome Ed Howard 2009

Boetticher expertly builds tension leading up to the final scenes, with striking overhead shots where the characters are framed between the crooked limbs of the hanging tree.

Ride Lonesome Ed Howard 2009

This plot is basically a compendium of all sorts of Western standards shuffled together: the Indian attacks, the outlaws chasing the good guys towards a final showdown, the frontier woman who needs to be protected though Carrie is, as usual for Boetticher, pretty tough in her own right.

Ride Lonesome Ed Howard 2009

I'd expected better from a Scott/Boetticher collaboration.

Archive 2007-06-24 Bill Crider 2007

It's a Budd Boetticher film, so I had high hopes for it.

The Man from the Alamo Bill Crider 2007

And yes, most of these things happen in other Westerns, including others Kennedy wrote, but because the Boetticher movies are so ritualized, the repetition stands out, like the leitmotifs in Wagner's Ring though I'd rather watch the complete cycle of Boetticher/Scott movies than the complete Ring.

The Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott/Burt Kennedy Drinking Game Jaime J. Weinman 2009

It's a Budd Boetticher film, so I had high hopes for it.

Archive 2007-09-16 Bill Crider 2007

In this volume a five-section religious cycle to text by Beccuti (‘il Copetta’), Signor le colpe mie, has been shown (by Boetticher) to be missing its first stanza, Di terrena armonia, a piece for some reason printed separately in Continuation du mellange issued by Le Roy & Ballard in 1584.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009