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Buffalo Bill And The Indians, Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson


     
  Buffalo Bill And The Indians, Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Review
Tookey's Rating
4 /10
 
Average Rating
3.88 /10
 
Starring
Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Joel Grey
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Directed by: Robert Altman
Written by: Alan Rudolph, Robert Altman from Arthur Kopit's play


 
 
 
Released: 1976
   
Genre: WESTERN
BIOPIC
CONTROVERSIAL
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 118
 
 


 
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The western is an enormously resilient form, but never has that resilience been tested quite so much as in this movie.

(Arthur Knight)

Altman is an ideological fashion-monger. He exploits established anti-establishment modes. He relies on predecessors to stake out and illuminate the ground, then he rides in like a black-humor Buffalo Bill expecting the cheers of a hip gallery for his safely satirical derring-do. ... About twenty-five per cent of the dialogue is simply incomprehensible.

(Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic)

Shelley Duvall, an Altman regular, is rapidly becoming one of the most predictably smarmy screen presences around... What good is Altman's celebrated eight-track sound if all it conveys is a one-track mind?

(John Simon, National Review)

Altman makes the point that Buffalo Bill was a flamboyant fraud, then belabors it for two hours. Not without interest, but still one of the director's duller movies.

(Leonard Maltin, Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, 2004)

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