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March 13, 2005
Blow Out
Blow Out (1981), Brian De Palma:
So The Conversation was one of my favorite movies, ever, and Blow-up I liked a lot, too, so I figured I might as well check out the De Palma/Travolta remake of the latter. Strangely enough, it was one of Pauline Kael's glowing positive reviews in the early 80's.
I kinda don't understand what she says about its "dreamlike clarity". She says it transcends genre, but I'm not so sure about that. De Palma is pretty good at suspense, but time has shown that a lot of his artistic touches seem pretty gimmicky.
I'm wondering if Collateral will suffer the same fate. Reading Kael's review gave me flashbacks of Manohla Dargis's review of Mann's latest. I really liked it, but I could see it suffering the same fate.
6/15
Posted by bing at March 13, 2005 09:31 PM