First Leni, Now Stevie

[davemarc]

It's a grand time for Pynchon-loving film buffs in NYC when an evening of
public television devoted to Leni Riefenstahl is followed by a two-day
revival of Steven Spielberg's 1974 film debut SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Film Forum,
July 23-24).  

This well-received Goldie Hawn vehicle (featuring Michael "Billy Pilgrim"
Sacks and Ben Johnson) is on a double bill--not with THE BLUE LIGHT (so
similar to those atop SUGARLAND EXPRESS's police vehicles) or TRIUMPH OF THE
WILL (so similar that the similarity need not be commented upon) or even
WOODSTOCK (that unforgettable tribute to statist militarism), but (much more
puzzlingly) with director Peter Bogdanovich's cut of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
(1971), which also featured Johnson. 

davemarc