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Winter Kills is a 1979 satirical black comedy thriller film written and directed by William Richert, based on the eponymous novel of 1974 by Richard Condon.
Aug 11, 2023 · When William Richert’s “Winter Kills” was originally released in 1979, it proved to be so wild and audacious in how it mined our collective memories of one of the darkest, most defining moments of 20th-century American history--and presented them through a blackly comedic prism so far ahead of its time--that the few audiences that turned ...
A singularly strange roman à clef rich with paranoia and black humor, Winter Kills views the political skullduggery of the late 20th century with a sharp, jaundiced eye. Read Critics Reviews ...
May 11, 1979 · Winter Kills: Directed by William Richert. With Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach. The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
WINTER KILLS was the directorial debut of screenwriter William Richert (1942-2022), described by Film at Lincoln Center as “a bold, brash uncompromising figure in the tradition of Orson Welles and John Cassavetes.”.
Feb 14, 2023 · The Winter Kills is in pre-production starring Kiefer Sutherland. A disgraced cop pursues the serial killer who murdered his partner ten years ago — and has resurfaced, killing again.
Winter Kills provides a perfect, absurd finale to the half-decade of post-Watergate paranoid thrillers that preceded it and compares favorably to the grand unified conspiracy-theory fictions that followed, such as Oliver Stone's JFK and James Ellroy's book American Tabloid.
