Tag: Lonesome Dove

  • Full speed ahead: the enduring appeal of the road movie

    Full speed ahead: the enduring appeal of the road movie

    From the Oscar-winning Drive My Car to festival favourite Hit the Road, audiences and critics are relishing the recent wave of road movies. Here, Geoff Dyer delves into the roots of the genreFour directors discuss breathing new life into the road movieWherever there is an actual physical journey there is inherent narrative interest. It doesn’t…

  • Bill Wittliff Dies: ‘Lonesome Dove’, ‘The Perfect Storm’ Writer Was 79

    Bill Wittliff Dies: ‘Lonesome Dove’, ‘The Perfect Storm’ Writer Was 79

    Writer, director and photographer Bill Wittliff, who penned the script for iconic 1980s television miniseries Lonesome Dove, died Sunday of a heart attack. He was 79.Wittliff’s numerous credits included screenplays for the 1994 film Legends of the Fall starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn; The Perfect Storm starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and…