Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen Walker at 6:30 and Searchers 2.0 at 8:30. Director Alex Cox will have a Q & A following both screenings. I haven’t been this excited for a NYC screening since Anthology’s wonderful screening of Lindsay Anderson’s Mick Travis trilogy last summer. Criterion is releasing Walker this month and I haven’t read much about Searchers 2.0, although I am excited to see Sy Richardson act in something other than a Superbowl FedEx commercial. Tarantino owes Cox and Richardson a big, fat apology for never recognizing that he stole the character Norwood from Straight to Hell and turned him into Jules Winnfield. “Put your tie on, boy.”
Insanely, I’ve never seen Walker but it promises to be a good allegory for Reagan-era U.S. foreign policy filtered through the story of William Walker, an American mercenary who briefly held the presidency of Nicaragua in the mid-19th century.
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