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In Reply to: Two pretty good films: Pharaoh's Army & Up at the Villa posted by Ears on December 11, 2000 at 00:23:45:
...but made for educational TV. Even better is Ride with the Devil, which takes the politically-incorrect viewpoint of Southern soldiers -- the Missouri Men. The excellent Tobey McGuire stars.Hey didya know? Black guys fought for the South! It's true and all in the movie too -- which perhaps help explain why the major media critics never paid it much attention.
clark
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I was watching the BRAVO program on Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" last night and his screenwriter for "Ride With The Devil" said that the studio basically abandoned that film during its release in Holiday season last year. It also suffered from some scathing reviews of folksinger Jewel's acting debut (I wouldn't know, haven't seen it, but can't imagine it being more painful than Madonna's "Body Of Evidence"). Thanks for reminding me about Ang Lee's lost film.
I had no problem at all with her, perhaps because I was not aware of her other line of... work.I can think of two other criticized actresses in the same "amateur" bag: Coppola's daughter in GFIII (I thought she was fine) and Bjork more recently in... what?... I didn't see it.
As to "Ride", by all means see it on the largest screen you can muster. While it's generally an intimate film focussing on the characters, there're a couple sequences that generously fill the screen with detail, notably the Sack of Lawrence. (Huh?)
clark
I've never heard of "Ride with the Devil". I'll try to find it to rent. There doesn't seem to be a large number of good Civil War films. Have any more suggestions?
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