Vista Visions
You can read more about Criterion’s ONE-EYED JACKS here.
And Criterion have uploaded a clip from my video essay —
ONE-EYED JACKS – An Excerpt from Video Essay “I Ain’t Hung Yet” from Criterion Collection on Vimeo.
Next up, more pieces for Criterion’s online outlets, The Current and Filmstruck. If you’re a Filmstruck patron you should already be able to access a piece Stephen Horne and I made about the late, great Pierre Etaix. More on him soon!
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December 29, 2016 at 5:00 pm
As far as I know this is the only Western in which the seashore appears.
December 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm
The late, great and much-missed Taylor Mead cited “One-Eyed Jacks” as Brando’s campiest performance. I thoroughly agree. He’s first seen lolling on the counter of a bank he’s in the process of robbing, casually eating a banana.
December 29, 2016 at 7:13 pm
And he throws the banana peel into the scales of Justice, a little statuette positioned specially for this pseudo-symbolic gesture…
December 29, 2016 at 7:17 pm
That’s fascinating about the seashore… I can’t prove you wrong off the top of my head. A subplot of Once Upon a Time in the West involves Gabriele Ferzetti’s railroad tycoon failing to make it to the ocean: he dies seeing a kind of mirage of the Pacific, but in reality it’s just a little trickle in the dirt.
December 29, 2016 at 8:25 pm
Great video piece. Interesting how indebted ‘Unforgiven’ is to the film. And Pina Pellicer’s performance is heartbreaking..
December 29, 2016 at 10:39 pm
Thanks! Try and get a copy of Macario for another great PP performance.
December 30, 2016 at 11:45 am
Is it fair to say that if you hand in a final cut that’s five hours long you haven’t really directed a film yet?
December 30, 2016 at 1:21 pm
It might be a really good five hour film — but it would be fair to say you are naive about what you can get away with in Hollywood, or you are giving up on the job and inviting someone else to sort it out… the latter seems likelier here — Brando was exhausted from the shoot, and cut the film on weekends while acting in another movie….
January 1, 2017 at 7:36 pm
Re: Seashores in Westerns…I remember being startled to see the rocky cliffs of California’s coast used in an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive called “Barney’s Bounty”. Steve McQueen and Noah Beery chase down a couple horse thieves on the beach.
January 21, 2017 at 8:56 pm
I have not yet seen the film but I am very intrigued to watch it even more after seeing your video. “The innocence of the Western was corrupted” – very bold statement, and I can’t wait to watch to see why!
January 21, 2017 at 9:42 pm
Thanks! Hope you enjoy the film, and all the extras!
March 1, 2017 at 3:46 pm
Seashores in TV Westerns: Just watched a Have Gun Will Travel with the California rocky cliffs and beach. Perhaps it was not so rare on television.