Behold the poster for ThinkFilm ‘s Zoo, Robinson Devor‘s “horse-fucking movie” that will show at the Sundance Film Festival. One look and right away you’re reminded of Peter Shaffer”s Equus. Where do I get the feeling that Zoo isn’t quite as pregnant with ideas and metaphor? (Maybe it is.) When I think of a horse schtupping some guy and death resulting from ruptured tissue…gimme a break. Feels on some level like the new cinematic “Piss Christ.”
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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