tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post7807968221678680178..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: The Big Fix (1978)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-30214113325637336452021-10-02T20:03:03.838-07:002021-10-02T20:03:03.838-07:00As of 2021, this film seems to be undergoing a sta...As of 2021, this film seems to be undergoing a startling new life of rediscovery and appreciation as one of the great "lost films" of the late 1970's. A brand new HD-restored Blu-Ray disc was released in July of 2021 with a newly written 38-page booklet, as well as reams of additional documentary materials. This was Richard Dreyfuss at the height of his immediate post-Oscar clout and power in 1978 Hollywood, producing and starring in one of the first lamentations over the lost radical ideals of the Sixties, and a unique snapshot of a languid, sun-bleached, and fern-bar 1970's-era Los Angeles, slowly teetering into the abyss of faddism, solipsism, and toxic apathy in the final and hazy-stoned days before the Reagan era would dawn and sweep any remaining vestiges of revolutionary hippie sentimentality right into the dustbin of history. It seems that in our present political moment of post-Trump anxiety and apathetic dread, this truly forgotten film is experiencing a singular and well-deserved scholarly reappraisal. (And it's Halloween setting is especially appropriate in terms of being haunted by the ghosts of one's long-faded and youthful hopes for a much better world.)<br /><br /><br />Barry Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16573287218366341637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-5894691786294776052012-11-06T21:22:23.544-08:002012-11-06T21:22:23.544-08:00A charming, if somewhat convoluted, crime movie. L...A charming, if somewhat convoluted, crime movie. Love Dreyfuss as Wine! The scene where he's crying about lost ideals... whew. The ending is quite sweet is well. Smartly the film avoided the weird Satanic cult aspect of the original novel.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.com