Sunday, March 09, 2008

At Long Last Love

blowI've recently finished reading Peter Biskind's "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls", a history of 70's Hollywood.

Though it is now fashionable to call the 70's a golden age, and it is true many fine films were made then, there were also a great number of films of that period which are unwatchable today.

Unwatchable not only because they have not aged well, but because they are just not available on DVD.

But, thanks to Youtube, fragments are out there. Once such film is Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 cocaine sprinkled masterpiece "At Long Last Love". The audio was captured live, so the singing you hear was live as well.

Thank good it preserves the singing and dancing talents of Burt Reynolds & Cybill Shepherd for all time.

Follow this link to see some samples (the user has disabled embedding)..if you are brave.

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