Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
Labyrinthine tales like this (based on William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel) rarely make it to the screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep...
With Rourke shambling smartly toward his doom, Bonet radiating elfin sensuality, and De Niro looking natty with his fancy jewelry and sulfurous smile, Angel Heart holds the mind and eye throughout. To be sure, even the most attentive viewer may still have one small question at the end: Whodunit? (Frankly, we think it was a satanic frame-up.) It is a question that could provoke more profitable debate than the needless fury raised by the rating board's attempted Heart transplant...
Alan Parker' s Angel Heart loses an X rating and saves its gritty soul. -- Some Kind of Wonderful: more teen angst from John Hughes...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Anthony J. Libardi, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Leonard S. Levine, Billy Powers, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Jay Petrow, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...