Awesome Movie Year

Point Blank (1967 Josh’s Pick)


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The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features Josh’s personal pick, John Boorman’s Point Blank. Directed by John Boorman from a screenplay by Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse and Rafe Newhouse and starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O’Connor and Michael Strong, Point Blank is based on Donald Westlake’s novel The Hunter.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/point-blank-1967), Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Manny Farber in Artforum (https://www.artforum.com/print/196710/the-train-bonnie-and-clyde-reflections-in-a-golden-eye-point-blank-38731).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our foreign film pick, Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend.

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