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Deliverance

July 2023

  • Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

    From the Guardian archive
    ‘You laugh as you’re choking’: a selection of Derek Malcolm’s seminal film reviews

    The Guardian’s longstanding film critic, who has died aged 91, was known for his insight into blockbusters and art pictures alike. Here are excerpts from his takes on Solaris, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Malcolm X and more

September 2022

  • Burt Reynolds, Bill McKinney and Jon Voigt in Deliverance, 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    Deliverance reviewed: ‘a finely structured allegory about America’ – archive, 1972

    28 September 1972: The great thing about John Boorman’s new film is that it’s a cracking good story

July 2022

  • BURT REYNOLDS<br>Burt Reynolds Film: Deliverance (USA 1972) Character(s): Lewis Director: John Boorman 30 July 1972 CTH26705 Allstar Picture Library/WARNER BROS. **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Deliverance at 50: a violent battle between urban and rural America

    John Boorman’s critical and commercial smash may have leaned on grotesque stereotypes but it remains a fiercely thrilling piece of exploitation

June 2021

  • Ned Beatty (second from left) in the 1972 film Deliverance, with his co-stars Ronny Cox, Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.

    John Boorman: how a belligerent Ned Beatty won me over

    Letter: The director of Deliverance recalls how the late actor landed the part of Bobby Trippe, despite his fiery audition
  • A face that lent approachability ... Ned Beatty in Hear My Song.

    Ned Beatty: the good ol’ boy who made playing the ordinary guy look easy

    From his breakthrough in Deliverance to a memorable turn in Toy Story 3, the authenticity of Beatty’s middleman gone bad made him the perfect co-star – and often stole the show
  • Ned Beatty in 2005.

    Ned Beatty, star of Deliverance, Network and Superman, dies aged 83

    Prolific supporting actor also appeared in All the President’s Men, Nashville, The Big Easy and Hear My Song

July 2019

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June 2019

  • Ray Bolger, left, Judy Garland and Jack Haley in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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    Plucked from obscurity: why bluegrass is making a comeback

September 2018

  • BURT REYNOLDS<br>Burt Reynolds Film: Deliverance (USA 1972) Character(s): Lewis Director: John Boorman 30 July 1972 CTH26705 Allstar Picture Library/WARNER BROS. **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Burt Reynolds: the easygoing cannonball of old-school Hollywood manliness

  • Deliciously bleak … Camping, Julia Davis style. Now the series is getting a Lena Dunham US makeover.

    'If this is paradise, give me hell': the camping shows Lena Dunham should watch

May 2017

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    How we made
    How we made Deliverance

    John Boorman: ‘Wherever poor Ned Beatty went, people would say: Squeal like a pig! It went on for years’

February 2016

  • Sacha Baron Cohen;Mark Strong<br>Mark Strong and Sacha Baron Cohen in Columbia Pictures' THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY. Grimsby film still

    Film blog
    Sacha Baron Cohen has trashed Grimsby – but these places had it far worse

    From the inescapable horrors of the Australian outback to dodgy Chinatowns the world over, here are the films the local tourist board would never want you to see

December 2015

  • Hollywood actor Burt Reynolds poses for a portrait during an interview in London, December 3, 2015. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

    Guardian Live
    Burt Reynolds meets Hadley Freeman - Guardian Live event

    To celebrate his autobiography But Enough About Me, veteran actor Burt Reynolds joins Hadley Freeman at a Guardian Live event to talk candidly about his career, Sinatra, Monroe and who would play him in the film of his life

June 2015

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    Chiraq and Lowriders storm fuelled by Hollywood's exploitation habit

    Spike Lee’s film about the mean streets of Chicago and an Los Angeles-set drama about Latino gangsters are just the latest movies accused of stereotyping communities
  • Deliverance

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  • John Boorman.

    John Boorman: ‘Deliverance would be impossible to make today’

    In his new film Queen and Country, veteran director John Boorman explores the postwar years of his youth. He talks about memory and imagination – and the fear that inspired his early work

October 2013

  • DIE HARD

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    Yippee-ki-yay! It's action-movie time! From Die Hard to Deliverance, here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics think are the 10 best ever made. Let us know what you think in the comments below

June 2012

  • Burt Reynalds deliverance

    Chattooga River communities celebrate anniversary of Deliverance with festival

    Despite negative portrayal of locals, Oscar-nominated movie has been boosting regional tourism for 40 years

October 2011

  • Burt Reynolds in John Boorman’s ‘elegant yet brutal’ Deliverance.

    The film that changed my life
    The film that changed my life: Brendan Gleeson

    Brendan Gleeson explains why the brutality of John Boorman's Deliverance has never really left him

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