New Stuff: Jewel

 

Ride With the Devil (1999)

 

During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy. 

Excellently and beautifully directed Western with an excellent cast takes its time to analyze the causes and effects of war, but somehow fails to make a lasting impact due to a lack of focus on its agenda. 

Halliwell**: "Dour, beautifully photographed semi-western, a harsh drama of idealism corrupted and redeemed; it ably shows the futility of war, as both sides commit atrocities and betrayals, but might have benefitted from a maturer point of view than that of its youthful participants."

Maltin**1/2: "Interesting subject matter is diffused by overlong, sometimes unfocused treatment, though the time and place are well drawn. Pop singer Jewel makes an impressive acting debut." 

 

The Movies I Watched in November

The Accountant of Auschwitz 2018  7 

 

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane 2006  5 

The Big Lebowski 1998  8

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2020  5

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving  1973  7 

 

The Dead Zone 1983  8 

 

Double Cross 1941  5

The Duel 2016  6

The Four Feathers 1978  6

House of Seven Belles 1979  4

The Juniper Tree 1990  7

 

The Killer Shrews  1959  4

Man on the Moon 1999  6

The Mule 2018  6 

Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix In Maui (2020)  6

My Octopus Teacher 2020  8 

 

Opera 1987  7

Operation Petticoat 1959  6

The Queen's Gambit 2020 8 

 

Ride With the Devil 1999  6

Stridulum 1978  4

Unsolved Mysteries, Season 2 2020  7

 

Wadjda 2012 7 

 

Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja 1924  7

 

Z For Zachariah 2015  6

New Stuff: Jewel

Couldn't skip out on Jewel's new album; had to order it in the States, since you can't get it (yet?) in Germany...

New Stuff: Jewel

Jewel is another artist I collect, I'm wondering what this new one is like.

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