Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Blu-ray) PG
The greatest buffaloer of them all!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 9, 2014
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Newman & Frank Kaquitts | |
Performer: | Joel Grey, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin McCarthy, Will Sampson, Shelley Duvall, Harvey Keitel, John Considine, Denver Pyle, Robert DoQui, Bert Remsen, Allan Nicholls & Burt Lancaster | |
Directed by | Robert Altman | |
Edited by | Dennis M. Hill & Peter Appleton | |
Screenplay by | Robert Altman & Alan Rudolph | |
Composition by | Richard Baskin | |
Cinematography by | Paul Lohmann | |
Art Direction by | Jack Maxsted | |
Produced by | Robert Altman | |
Executive Production by | Dino De Laurentiis & David Susskind |
Entertainment Reviews:
Newman is impressive...
Sight and Sound
The intention is better than the end product. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians refuses to tell us a story; its only intent is to give us a metaphor.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 4/5 --
Altman at his perverse best.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 5.0/5 --
Altman and crew have done the necessary reorganizing and reediting on Buffalo Bill and have created a terrific movie out of the troubled dust of what was. The first time I saw the movie in New York, it was explicit, contrived, and needed a lot of help.
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tonymacklin.net
Scabrous revues of myopic mythology
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CinePassion
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It's a sometimes self-indulgent, confused, ambitious movie that is often very funny and always fascinating.
New York Times
Product Description:
Robert Altman revisits American history--following the critical smash NASHVILLE--with this scathing indictment of celebrity and politics in the Wild West. Paul Newman (BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID) stars as Buffalo Bill Cody, a man who has parlayed his legend into a grand moneymaking scheme. Employing a group of talented gunslingers and horseback riders, Bill's carnival show promotes an exaggerated view of American history. However, when the company recruits equally legendary Native American Chief Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts) and his interpreter, William Halsey (Will Sampson) to appear as defeated victims in the show, the lies begin to catch up with Buffalo Bill. While the appearance of President Grover Cleveland (Pat McCormick) further helps carve Bill's name in history, it is revealed that Sitting Bull is not completely done with Bill. Altman's adaptation of Arthur Kopit's play contains his signature roaming camera and sprawling cast, as well as conveys a sarcastic, cynical tone that aims to debunk myths created by the real-life legends on which the film is based. As the manipulative Buffalo Bill, a man whose conscience finally catches up with him, Newman delivers a comical and impassioned performance, adding yet another memorable character to his, and director Altman's, oeuvre.