{"id":9604,"date":"2013-09-09T22:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T05:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2013-09-12T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:18:08","slug":"film-criticism-larry-schillers-the-executioners-song-a-review-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/09\/09\/film-criticism-larry-schillers-the-executioners-song-a-review-by\/","title":{"rendered":"film criticism of Larry Schiller&#8217;s <i>THE EXECUTIONER&#8217;S SONG<\/i>, by Gene Gregorits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Film]<\/p>\n<h1><strong>movie review: <em>THE EXECUTIONER&#8217;S SONG<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Taking a second look at crimesploitation literature in film<\/h3>\n<p><strong>review by Gene Gregorits<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nRe-watched that weasel Larry Schiller&#8217;s adaptation of that bozo Norman Mailer&#8217;s <em>THE EXECUTIONER&#8217;S SONG<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a great film, I think, far better than I ever realized. The remarkably faithful location shooting is really key to the film&#8217;s overall power (Utah is in so many ways the main character of this story) but Tommy Lee Jones&#8217; Gilmore is hard as hell to shake, and Rosanna Arquette as his welfare witch lover Nicole Baker is better here than in most subsequent roles. She&#8217;s also frequently nude which helps the film&#8217;s pacing. Christine Lahti does a good job of humanizing Gilmore (while Jones himself renders the killer in a brave manner that doesn&#8217;t engender any undue sympathy) while reminding us all of her naturalistic sex appeal (she is braless throughout). I was very happy to re-discover a lovely 20 year old Jenny Wright, appearing briefly as Arquette&#8217;s schizophrenic sister April.<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling it was made in a hurry, but there are some very special moments in Schiller&#8217;s film. It&#8217;s the kind of story nobody really cares about anymore, and an honest film that certainly wouldn&#8217;t turn too many heads today. That&#8217;s really a shame.<\/p>\n<p><em>[This is a repost, originally posted on Gregoritis&#8217; facebook page. ~Editor]<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9607\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/executioners-song-tommy.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/executioners-song-tommy.jpg?resize=569%2C426\" alt=\"Tommy Lee Jones in The Executioner&#039;s Song.\" width=\"569\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/executioners-song-tommy.jpg?w=569&amp;ssl=1 569w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/executioners-song-tommy.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Lee Jones in <b><i>The Executioner&#8217;s Song<\/i><\/b>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Film] movie review: THE EXECUTIONER&#8217;S SONG Tweet Taking a second look at crimesploitation literature in film review by Gene Gregorits Re-watched that weasel Larry Schiller&#8217;s adaptation of that bozo Norman Mailer&#8217;s THE EXECUTIONER&#8217;S SONG. It&#8217;s actually a great film, I think, far better than I ever realized. The remarkably faithful location shooting is really key to the film&#8217;s overall power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[598,581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10899,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2014\/11\/25\/dvd-review-klitschko-from-director-sebastian-dehnhardt\/","url_meta":{"origin":9604,"position":0},"title":"dvd review: Klitschko from director Sebastian Dehnhardt","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"November 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[Video]Klitschkodocumentary, director Sebastian Dehnhardt, 2011, with Wladimir & Vitali Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Emmanuel Steward, Shannon Briggs, Larry Merchant, in English, from Corinth Films, 111 minutesby Bob Yunger If one wants to better understand the tumultuous world of Ukrainian politics and by association Russian society in general one might want to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;adventure central&quot;","block_context":{"text":"adventure central","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/adventure-central\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7962,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/01\/15\/i-am-not-a-hipster-san-diegosundance-film-finally-available-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":9604,"position":1},"title":"I AM NOT A HIPSTER San Diego\/Sundance Film Finally Available Online","author":"katherine","date":"January 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"[Film] I AM NOT A HIPSTERTweetA \"Love Letter to San Diego\" - REAL, LOCAL Indy Film By Katherine Sweetman I AM NOT A HIPSTER Available Online Today at Amazon, Vudu,\u00a0Google Play, iTunes, Sundance Now I AM\u00a0 NOT A HIPSTER's opening sequence takes place at the Casbah. 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