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Criterion has announced their November 2014 line-up. Click the box art for specific pages:
On the film’s 35th anniversary, watch Francis Ford Coppola talk Apocalypse Now with Merv Griffin (thanks to Refocused Media):
At The Dissolve, Noel Murray on what they “don’t make ’em like” anymore:
Last week I watched the 1975 Charles Bronson action-Western Breakheart Pass, newly available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber’s “Studio Classics” line; and as I usually do when I’m writing a review of an older movie, I looked to see what critics had to say about it back when it was originally released. The answer? Not much. Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave Breakheart Pass one of its most positive notices, writing, “It’s a highly efficient entertainment of the sort sometimes labeled escapist.” Other major critics either ignored the film altogether or briskly dismissed it, and for the same reason in both cases: Because Breakheart Pass didn’t offer anything they weren’t seeing on movie screens and television screens nearly every week.
Watch the first five minutes from The Rover, and listen to our review, read our interview with the director, and more here.