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DANCE OF DEATH

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Sydney Pollack's

The Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969)

Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrizon and the indefatigable Red Buttons dance to Gig Young's tune in a marathon which is not too heavily laid on as a metaphor of life in the Thirties.

It is highly watchable. A second or third time for me.

I like the performances, the irony, the metaphor itself.

I will probably see it again sometime.

Not a masterwork maybe but a durable fixture in the American film library.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films