Couldn’t make it to the Portland showing of “Aren’t You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goodbye?” and “Winter Kills”? The solution is to pick them up from the William Richert Store on DVD and pop up these sparkly pictures marquees and posters to provide full ambiance. Gallery after the jump.
This is an outstanding movie, full of brutal murder, conscienceless business dealings, hidden mikes and political prostitution. In other words, it’s a great comedy of politics and power. Bridges provides the naivete and honesty which holds things together. Huston provides the monstrous laughs. The cameos by such as Stirling Hayden, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard [...]
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TERRIFIC FILM ! But the DVD is WAY OVERPRICED!, March 23, 2003
Reviewer: George Hatch from Staten Island, NY
First off, “Winter Kills” (the film) deserves 5 STARS. It’s a terrific black comedy about (GASP!) a presidential assassination that would make an interesting double-bill with Oliver Stone’s “JFK”. And like “JFK”, the film is packed [...]
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A COMIC CELEBRATION OF PURE PARANOIA, April 11, 2003
Reviewer: Robin E. Simmons from Desert Hot Springs, CA United States
The much anticipated DVD release of WINTER KILLS is a cause for celebration to cult film fanatics everywhere.
Richard Condon’s dazzlingly paranoid comic novel about an American president’s assassination investigation has been perfectly captured by writer-director [...]
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Paranoid visionary political thriller, April 26, 2003
Reviewer: George Thomas Parsons
One of those 70s films that haunts me (John Huston’s Wiseblood is another, there are lots more). This was based on a story by Richard Condon who also wrote The Manchurian Candidiate. A great cast with a very young Jeff Bridges as the [...]
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Winter Kills (1979)
Review by Head Cheeze
I love Jeff Bridges. He’s one of those actors that need only appear on the screen and I know things are gonna be just fine. Bridges has made a practice of picking quality projects throughout his career, and Winter Kills, a damned fine little conspiracy thriller recently unearthed [...]
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WINTER KILLS ( 1979 2003 DVD)
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Richard T. Jameson
This exhilarating kaleidoscope of a movie, from a surreally layered novel by Richard (Manchurian Candidate) Condon, combines post-Watergate paranoia, gallows humor, political sci-fi, dazzling suspense set-pieces, something we might call postmodern historical burlesque, and gonzo performances by a truly all-star cast. It’s all held together by Jeff [...]
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Scenes from the documentary about the making of the cult classic “Winter Kills” featuring stars Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer, writer-director William Richert, Cinematographer Vilmos Szigmond, and production designer Robert Boyle. Directed by Perry Martin for the Anchor Bay DVD. All agree they never worked on a movie quite like this one. “Winter Kills” stars [...]
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See the long-form trailer for Richert’s cult classic, ‘Winter Kills’.
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In 1979 William Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid’s darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East [...]