Left Handed Gun

Left Handed Gun

Warner Bros.

May 17, 1958

Western

DVD
D+

Young Newman as Billy the Kid.  This is based on the Gore Vidal play and directed by Arthur Penn.

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?

Paramount

November 10, 1966

War Drama

DVD
C-

"An all-star cast," none of whom I recognized.  Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola are among those who contributed to the script.  René Clément directed.

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
MGM
November 18, 1959
Historical Drama
DVD
D

Six-and-a-half minutes of overture, then five-and-a-half-minutes for the Birth of Jesus, and then the opening credits.  2001 was more eventful!  At least this led to one of the funnier sequences of Celluloid Closet, where Gore Vidal claims he put homosexual subtext into the movie.  (I wouldn't know from what I watched today.  There was barely any text.)  William Wyler directed.