Episode 6

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27th May 2020

Lone Star (1996 Josh’s Pick)

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features Josh’s personal pick, John Sayles’ Lone Star. Written and directed by John Sayles and starring Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Joe Morton, Kris Kristofferson, Miriam Colon, Clifton James and Matthew McConaughey, Lone Star premiered at the 1996 South by Southwest film festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lone-star-1996), David Ansen in Newsweek (https://www.newsweek.com/dark-deeds-texas-179468), and Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/06/21/lone-star-2/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring one of the year’s most notable foreign films, Oscar-winning Czech film Kolya.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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