MOVIE #1,520 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.08.24 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓎: A MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTOR FOCUS 🇮🇹🇺🇸 This is, I believe, the lone Roger Corman-Scorsese production and that alone makes it an interesting watch. There’s a night and day difference between this and the early, mostly student work. From the book Scorsese on Scorsese: [Marty] screened a rough cut of the film for John Cassavetes. Cassavetes took Scorsese into his office and told him, "Marty, you've just spent a whole year of your life making a piece of shit. It's a good picture, but you're better than the people who make this kind of movie. Don't get hooked into the exploitation market, just try and do something different." |
The final thirty minutes play out like a prolonged denouement rather than a third act (this is something good to write, huh? I understand things, like cinema). But this isn't even really true, as Casey's cold-ass, kill ‘em all revenge is maybe the best part of the whole movie (even if it’s cheap and not set up very well). I appreciated this cheapness as far as the story goes, and it's a good-looking movie especially considering the sub-$1-million budget and typically fast Corman shooting schedule.
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Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington. Made on a low budget, the film is a loose adaptation of Sister of the Road, a pseudo-autobiographical account of the fictional character Bertha Thompson. It was Scorsese's second feature film. It was released on June 14, 1972.
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