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...late March, Waits hands back his room key, moves out of the Chelsea and into an apartment a few blocks away. Then, out of the blue, a telephone call from filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola: he's in town and wants to discuss a movie. "We had a brief conversation about a nebulous project called One from the Heart," recounts Waits. "At that time the idea was a little half-baked. Now, it's starting to materialize...
...Apocalypse Now and even more personal than the achingly personal story of The Deer Hunter. There are good guys and bad guys and there is a line, however thin, between killing and murdering. Through the entire war, Marvin and his men stubbornly survive, eerily recalling the words of Coppola's Colonel Kilgore: "Someday, this war's gonna...
...killer's point of view and we seem to be enjoying it, and to be dissociating ourselves from what it means. Responsible film artists have been warning us for years: Hitchcock told us, over and over, that we were voyeurs and sadists; Kubrick in Clockwork Orange, Malick in Badlands, Coppola in Apocalypse Now made epics of our dissociation; soldiers in Vietnam said it didn't feel like being there, it felt like being in a war movie; and Roger Rosenblatt writes in The New Republic that Son of Sam seems like just another psycho-on-the-loose movie. I wonder...
...Apocalypse Now and even more personal than the achingly personal story of The Deer Hunter. There are good guys and bad guys and there is a line, however thin, between killing and murdering. Through the entire war, Marvin and his men stubbornly survive, eerily recalling the words of Coppola's Colonel Kilgore: "Someday, this war's gonna...
...killer's point of view and we seem to be enjoying it, and to be dissociating ourselves from what it means. Responsible film artists have been warning us for years: Hitchcock told us, over and over, that we were voyeurs and sadists; Kubrick in Clockwork Orange, Malick in Badlands, Coppola in Apocalypse Now made epics of our dissociation; soldiers in Vietnam said it didn't feel like being there, it felt like being in a war movie; and Roger Rosenblatt writes in The New Republic that Son of Sam seems like just another psycho-on-the-loose movie. I wonder...