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Actor: Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda co-wrote, produced and starred in Easy Rider, which cost almost nothing and changed American film distribution. Ulee’s Gold brought a Best Actor nomination thirty years later for a beekeeper of complete emotional withholding. He was Henry Fonda’s son and Jane’s brother, and directed The Hired Hand.

Russell Crowe as outlaw Wade and Christian Bale as rancher Dan Evans face off on a desert road during their journey to theBen Foster

3:10 to Yuma (2007) Review

3:10 to Yuma (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. James Mangold opens the story out, adds half an hour, gives the rancher a limp and a war record, and turns a chamber piece into a journey.…

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Two men on motorcycles ride down a desert highway in the 1960s, the road stretching behind them toward distant mountains.Dennis Hopper

Easy Rider (1969) Review

Easy Rider (1969) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It invented the modern road movie and killed the counterculture's mythology in the same hundred minutes. The film is loose, self-indulgent and occasionally incoherent, and the ending is…

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Nadja (1994) film posterElina Lowensohn

Nadja (1994)

Nadja earns its 6.5 as a singular artifact of nineties downtown independent cinema, a black-and-white art-house vampire film that filters the Dracula mythology. Michael Almereyda made it cheaply in 1994 with Hollywood backing from David Lynch, who also appears in…

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