In ''Pale Rider,'' the Stranger is openly propositioned not only by Megan's mother, Sarah Wheeler (Carrie Snodgress), but by Megan herself, who attempts to talk the Stranger into making love to her by emphasizing that she's almost l5, the age at which her mother was married. Eastwood's increasing preoccupation with romances that can be best described as April-October affairs. Eastwood and his writers exercise their ingenuity. The fascination lies not in what is going to happen but in how, and it's here that Mr.
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''Pale Rider'' is not the equal of ''The Outlaw Josey Wales.'' That the hero of the new movie really is a god of some sort eliminates a certain amount of suspense. There are laughs in it, and all but one or two of them are intentional, including a final, shameless quote from George Stevens's ''Shane.'' Eastwood's self-directed films as of the Eastwood films directed by Don Siegel. Eastwood's ''Gauntlet'' and Chuck Norris's ''Code of Silence,'' is a Western played absolutely straight, but it's also very funny in a dryly sophisticated way that - it's only now apparent - has been as true of Mr. ''Pale Rider, written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack, who also wrote Mr. The difficulty is in bringing it off, which is where Mr. It doesn't take particular inventiveness for an actor-director to cast himself as God, or even as His Son. Resurrection also is the key to ''Pale Rider.'' However, just who this fellow was in his previous incarnation is left so vague you have a right to suspect that he might have been Him. That earlier Stranger was an implacable gun slinger, eventually revealed to be the ghost of a high-principled sheriff, returned to earth to wreak revenge on the Mammon-worshipping townspeople who had lynched him. Eastwood's earlier ''High Plains Drifter'' (1973), which he also directed and in which he played another character called the Stranger. ''Pale Rider,'' which opens today at the Warner Twin and other theaters, recalls the curious metaphysics of Mr. Eastwood may have been improving over the years, it's also taken all these years for most of us to recognize his very consistent grace and wit as a film maker. This veteran movie icon handles both jobs with such intelligence and facility I'm just now beginning to realize that, though Mr.
Eastwood, who not only stars in ''Pale Rider'' but also directed it. He is, of course, the Stranger, played by Mr.
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, MURDER: SCREAM – 10/26 – This two-hour documentary goes behind the scenes of one of America's most beloved horror movies "Scream," to uncover the shockingly true story of serial killer Danny Rolling.Ī PARTY TO DIE FOR – 10/28 – An aspiring socialite wakes up after a night of partying to her new friend asking her to help get rid of a dead body.As Megan pronounces ''Amen,'' the camera cuts to another part of the West, to the figure of a lone horseman astride a fine, pale horse, riding easily but with inexorable purpose toward Carbon Valley. TERROR TRAIN – 10/21 – Based on the 1980 cult classic, TERROR TRAIN is a contemporary reimagining that follows a group of college seniors aboard a party train which soon descends into chaos as a masked killer wreaks havoc on the rails. TMZ NO BS: JENNIFER LOPEZ – 10/19 – Looking back on nearly 20 years of coverage since TMZ arrived on the scene, this documentary dives into Jennifer Lopez's personal dramas and relationships which became as newsworthy as her prolific multi-hyphenate career. THE FINAL ROSE – 10/14 – A young single mother arrives on a remote island to compete on The Final Rose, TV's number one dating show, and slowly discovers that a mysterious killer is slaying the contestants, one by one. Who will come out on top? Two beasts enter, only one will survive! YETI – 10/12 – Bigfoot and Yeti go toe-to-toe in the ultimate showdown. ALONE IN THE DARK – 10/7 – A recent divorcée under house arrest must deal with a stalker that appears to have control over her surroundings.īATTLE OF THE BEASTS: BIGFOOT VS.
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