Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Buck and the Preacher originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Poitier expertly blends political allegory into the myth of the American West by tapping into our...
Title: Buck and the Preacher Year: 1972 Director: Sidney Poitier Cast: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Danny Miller, Cameron Mitchell Synopsis: In the Kansas Territory shortly after the end of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery, devious...
We’re all familiar with the movie trope of the dance party ending (I’m sure that, like me, everyone else thinks first of Dan Aykroyd shimmying to “Land of a Thousand Dances” at the end of The Great Outdoors, right?). But...
