Targets (1968)

[Akijama]

https://www.criterion.com/films/29965-targets

New 4K digital master, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich
Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
Audio excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt at the American Film Institute
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman

New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde

Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.