Where was Leonard Pinth Garnell when we needed him? Joseph Losey is often accused of pretension but in this case he may be guilty. Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell are escapees scrambling across a rocky terrain, pursued by a helicopter that seems satisfied to just harass them. Keeping the audience in the dark doesn't reap any dramatic or thematic benefit that I can see. Figures in a Landscape Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date January 12, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Roger Lloyd Pack, Pamela Brown. Cinematography Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky, Guy Tabary Film Editor Reginald Beck Art Direction Ted Tester Original Music Richard Rodney Bennett Written by Robert Shaw from the novel by Barry England Produced by John Kohn Directed by Joseph Losey
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Joseph Losey is a gold mine for film criticism but a real problem for simple film reviewing.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Joseph Losey is a gold mine for film criticism but a real problem for simple film reviewing.
- 1/16/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Probably the most telling Roger Corman mantra is the belief that the more money you put in a movie the less artistic imagination there will be in it. It’s easy in retrospect to see this as a sly dig at George Lucas. Indeed Star Wars was Corman’s biggest threat – it subsequently derailed his career and made studios savvy to something he always knew: that you could make even more money out of movies if you put more money into them. And from being the pioneer of low-budget money-making monster flicks and bloody revenge dramas Corman was relegated to the sidelines.
It’s easy to write-off Corman as simply a tasteless exploitative hack of Z-grade movies who has no artistic integrity of his own to speak of, but then that wouldn’t justify the deep-seated admiration he has acquired. This witty, brilliantly entertaining and insightful...
Probably the most telling Roger Corman mantra is the belief that the more money you put in a movie the less artistic imagination there will be in it. It’s easy in retrospect to see this as a sly dig at George Lucas. Indeed Star Wars was Corman’s biggest threat – it subsequently derailed his career and made studios savvy to something he always knew: that you could make even more money out of movies if you put more money into them. And from being the pioneer of low-budget money-making monster flicks and bloody revenge dramas Corman was relegated to the sidelines.
It’s easy to write-off Corman as simply a tasteless exploitative hack of Z-grade movies who has no artistic integrity of his own to speak of, but then that wouldn’t justify the deep-seated admiration he has acquired. This witty, brilliantly entertaining and insightful...
- 6/14/2011
- by Oliver Pfeiffer
- Obsessed with Film
A one-man movie factory, Roger Corman is now the subject of a film himself. The 'pope of popular cinema' speaks to Xan Brooks in Cannes
Down at the Cannes Marché du Film, the stalls sell monster flicks and "erotical thrillers", gun-toting revenge dramas and a film about a band of kung-fu ninja girls who join a beach volleyball team ("very romantic," insists the sales agent). It is a jumbled, lively place, teeming with circus barkers and recalling a bygone B-movie heyday when you could escort Betty-Sue to the drive-in, watch some screaming teenagers being chomped by a radioactive crustacean and still have change from a dollar. If Roger Corman walked in now, they'd probably hail him as a god.
Instead, I find Corman a little further up the prom, resting his bones in a hotel salon. He explains was up until 3am the night before, attending a reception on Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's yacht,...
Down at the Cannes Marché du Film, the stalls sell monster flicks and "erotical thrillers", gun-toting revenge dramas and a film about a band of kung-fu ninja girls who join a beach volleyball team ("very romantic," insists the sales agent). It is a jumbled, lively place, teeming with circus barkers and recalling a bygone B-movie heyday when you could escort Betty-Sue to the drive-in, watch some screaming teenagers being chomped by a radioactive crustacean and still have change from a dollar. If Roger Corman walked in now, they'd probably hail him as a god.
Instead, I find Corman a little further up the prom, resting his bones in a hotel salon. He explains was up until 3am the night before, attending a reception on Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's yacht,...
- 5/20/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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