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Remembering Ted Kotcheff

June 11, 2025June 9, 2025Today's Top StoriesFirst Blood, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ted Kotcheff, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Shooter, Wake in Fright

I was both shocked and saddened to discover only last week that legendary Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, whose film career spanned six decades, had passed away in April, the news somehow getting past me. Perhaps

Wake in Fright and the Gift of the Restored Classic

January 10, 2018January 9, 2018ReviewTod Kotcheff, Wake in Fright

It is not entirely unusual for a film’s original print to get lost in the processes of history. In actual fact, they estimate that just over 75% of U.S. silent films are forever lost, and

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