Winter Kills (1979) Director: William Richert Earlier this month I dragged my brother in law to a screening of the 35mm restoration of this cult comedy film at Film Forum, knowing virtually nothing about it, except that it was being presented by Quentin Tarantino, a man who — for all flaws — knows every obscure old film that’s worth getting eyes on. In all my years studying 70s cinema and cult classic films, I’d never heard of this parody of Joe Kennedy and the machinations behind the Kennedy political machine that led to JFK’s untimely assassination in 1963, which feels
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Winter Kills (1979) Director: William Richert Earlier this month I dragged my brother in law to a screening of the 35mm restoration of this cult comedy film at Film Forum, knowing virtually nothing about it, except that it was being presented by Quentin Tarantino, a man who — for all flaws — knows every obscure old film that’s worth getting eyes on. In all my years studying 70s cinema and cult classic films, I’d never heard of this parody of Joe Kennedy and the machinations behind the Kennedy political machine that led to JFK’s untimely assassination in 1963, which feels