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Blood Simple has plenty of flash--the sort of cinema virtuosity that can be overpraised precisely because it is so difficult to describe. Just as easily, the movie can be underrated as a film-school exercise, with visual strategies reminiscent of both Terrence Malick and Sergio Leone, and a grisly climax that borrows from Psycho and Ministry of Fear. But Blood Simple infiltrates the central nervous system even as it opens the cultist's sharp eye. Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint...
...interviews he had scheduled. At Camp David, the two former movie stars cozy up on a sofa in the dark, holding hands and sharing a bowl of popcorn as they watch good, wholesome films--lately, Local Hero and Phar Lap. Says one aide who has attended the Camp David cinema: "It's like looking at a pair of high school kids...
MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot. The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit and rock-video glitz...
These are awesome images, astonishing images. But in the superb film that David Lean has made from E.M. Forster's sublime novel A Passage to India, their function far transcends the purely pictorial. In Lean's cinema there is no such thing as an idle shot, something that survives to the final cut merely because it is striking in its beauty or novel in its impact. Particularly in the Lean films that people conveniently but mistakenly identify as "epics" or "spectacles"?movies like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago?the largest weight...
...definitely an intriguing film and helped define the science fiction genre. It must be remembered that when the film opened in 1968, man had yet to walk in space, put laboratories and reusable space vehicles into orbit or even land on some of our neighboring planets. New cinema to graphic techniques and plot design helped to make that film a true classic...