Paint Your Wagon
Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2009
(Joshua Logan, USA, 1969, 35mm, 166 min)
Opening night introduced by film critic Robert Horton
This big-budget Western musical starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg in a ménage-à-trois was the last blast from director Joshua Logan (South Pacific). Wonderfully entertaining, the risqué script was written by Paddy Chayefsky and adapted from the Lerner and Lowe musical. The film’s overblown production values and under-toned musical performances of non-singer tough guys Marvin and Eastwood make this gloriously imperfect revision of the Western genre a truly unique experience.
About Robert Horton
Robert Horton writes about film for The Herald (Everett, Wash.) and appears weekly on KUOW-FM radio and the Seattle Channel’s Art Zone In Studio. He is the author of Billy Wilder: Interviews (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2001) and Frankenstein (London: Wallflower Press, 2009), and his obituary on the acting career of Frank Sinatra was selected for the Best American Movie Writing 1999 omnibus (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999). He is a frequent contributor to Film Comment magazine; his work has also appeared in Newsday, The Chicago Reader, and The Seattle Times. He helped run the Seattle Film Society, teaches film classes, and appears annually at the Port Townsend Film Festival. He has been hosting the monthly Magic Lantern program at the Frye since February 2005. roberthorton.wordpress.com