Visit my other film website, What a Feeling!, for an endlessly growing collection of original reviews first published in the 1980s. Good movies, bad movies, movies you have absolutely never heard of – reviewed as they opened (with present-day annotations by the author). It’s a journey from Gymkata to Rambo to Under the Cherry Moon, with a few classics thrown in, too. Click here to enter the vortex – and then gag me with a spoon.
Robert Horton, Writing About Film
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About This Site
The Crop Duster has two goals. One is to organize links to my critical work: reviews written for The Herald (Everett, Washington) and Seattle Weekly; and public appearances and TV jobs. Selected past work for Film Comment and elsewhere is also linkified. You may also link to my website of 1980s reviews and learn more about my book on Frankenstein and my graphic novel, ROTTEN.
The second goal is to keep a daily record of films watched, annotated with brisk, brief comments. It's a slightly more advanced version of the movie list I kept, in Flair pen, thumbtacked next to my bed when I was twelve.
Days of Heaven: Past Writings
- Andrew Sarris in Seattle
- Cutter’s Way (the Scanners opening shot project)
- Dans Paris review, Film Comment Jul/Aug 2007
- East German cinema primer, GreenCine 2007
- Film Comment TCM Diary: Ruby Gentry
- Film Comment TCM Diary: The Power
- Film Comment: A Touch of Noir (on Jules Dassin's 10:30 P.M. One Summer)
- Film Comment: Aferim!
- Film Comment: On John Wayne
- Film Comment: The Homesman
- Film Comment: The Typewriter and the Camera (on Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- Frank Sinatra Golden Years Collection – Amazon.com Editorial Review
- Frank Sinatra The Early Years Collection – Amazon.com Editorial Review
- Greta Garbo, Film Comment, Jul/Aug 1990
- Leos Carax – Int’l Dictionary of Films, 2000
- New York Film Festival 1994: Film Comment
- Paul Newman Collection – Amazon.com Editorial Review
- Robert Mitchum Signature Collection – Amazon.com Editorial Review
- Sansho the Bailiff – Amazon.com Editorial Review
- Say Anything… – City Arts, Dec. 2008
Stories for TV
- Celluloid Seattle Curator's Talk 2013
- Celluloid Seattle Preview Lecture 2013
- Critics Wrap: Best Films of 2011
- Critics Wrap: Best Films of 2012
- Critics Wrap: Best Films of 2013
- Critics Wrap: Best Films of 2014
- DVDs of 2007, Seattle Channel
- Evening with David Thomson
- Framing Pictures: 2015 Top Ten
- Framing Pictures: 2016 Top Ten
- Seattle on Film (CityStream, 2008)
- You do the translation: "Robert Horton en un infatigable crítico residente en Seattle y colaborador habitual de Film Comment. Su espacio en la red está en The Crop Duster acaso el mejor blog de un cinecrítico profesional americano después del de Roger Ebert." --Ernesto DiezMartinez Guzmán, editor of Vértigo
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HATEFUL DEEDS
HATEFUL DEEDS is a novel of political satire and suspense. Read more and download it here!
FRANKENSTEIN
FRANKENSTEIN is my take on the 1931 film's making and legacy, plus some old-school film criticism. From Columbia University Press's "Cultographies" series. Click the image to order.
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What a Feeling!
- What a Feeling! My other website: a you-are-there journey through the flabbergasting world of 1980s movies.
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