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| I dig that Cinema Group logo, seen in the lower left corner of the ad, and reminiscent of the Filmways logo from the same year. |
In honor of Mr. Hill's latest theatrical feature, Bullet to the Head, and the recent Blu-ray of Southern Comfort, courtesy of Second Sight. I had the pleasure of seeing a 35mm print of the film earlier this week accompanied by a post-screening discussion and q & a with the director.
Watching this film for the first time in years the other day, I found myself thinking of my late father and how he would have enjoyed this film, its ambiance, its directness, and the perfectly attuned score by Ry Cooder. Then I realized that I probably had watched the film, or at least part of it, in the company of Dad, via this laserdisc, which I no longer have, but which got a lot of play in my teen years.
The screening also reminded me how much I like Powers Boothe in this
film and pretty much whenever I see him on film or television.
Considering his talents and screen presence, the man did not get enough
feature film (sole) lead opportunities in his prime, aside from Boorman's The Emerald Forest,
a film I have strong memories of seeing tv spots and prints ads for, but which I never actually watched. This rekindled admiration for the actor brought me back to my dad, as I suddenly had a memory of him saying something like, "I like that Powers Boothe. Good actor." Which brought to me to an even earlier memory (circa 1983) of watching Boothe as Philip Marlowe, with my dad, on the (first) HBO original drama Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. As I've written here before, anyone who's lost a loved one probably has one or two things they'd like to do with, or say to, that person more than anything else. The cinephile in me just wants to sit down and watch a "Dad movie"--Southern Comfort will do--with Dad.
