Big Wednesday

What if the greatest American novel was a surfing movie starring Jan-Michael Vincent? While it is going on, there is almost nothing like it—the sense of time passing, the novelistic structure, the movement between the surfing footage, and the violent narrative amassed out…

Filipe Furtado

There are two types of people in this world. Those who watch Point Break. And those who watch Point Break and know Gary Busey was in Big Wednesday.

Colin the dude

The perfect late summer movie; watching “Big Wednesday” feels like getting your brain fried by the desperate final rays of the August sun.  Director John Milius’ work is the famously underachieving sibling of a three-way compromise. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and…

theriverjordan

more john ford than john ford -- youth, landscape, senescence, passage, persist, persist... milius was one of the very few genuine poet-philosophers that the american cinema created, a man who intimately understood the absurd contradictions of masculinity, yet…

comrade_yui

"Nobody surfs forever" we count ourselves by summers youre defined by the seasons////your past versions of yourself, shed and left bronzed in the memory of people you knew and some you cant remember nothing bears the tides of long friendships like the faces of…

~findlay

No começo de Big Wednesday jovens amigos, surfistas intrépidos e destemidos, são recebidos por um paraíso perfeitamente acessível. A câmera os acolhe num contre-plongée generoso; o espaço se compõe, majestosamente, em um lance de degraus que ascende a um templo cujo valor…

Bruno Andrade

Getting caught by the tide. A novelistic epic submerged in a fordian lyricism that consists in friends saying goodbye several times, drifting apart and getting back together, the weight of their friendship progressively eroding by the way life compels them to ride the…

Diogo Serafim

In director John Milius' treatment of Big Wednesday — back when it was an idea for a novel, not a movie — he described his surfer characters this way: We were outlaws, juvenile delinquents, anarchists and rascals. And at the same time our lives were regulated by a strict…

sakana1

In which Ford and Hawks collide. Where men are brothers, both amateurs and professionals, often separated in life but bound by forces much more firm than earthly ties—that space whither the sea reaches out to touch the sky in pursuit of a place and a feeling lost to time.…

Jerry