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...also terribly fascinating to watch. David Peterson, a little-known Canadian stage actor, plays Collins and he holds your attention every minute he's on screen. He has DeNiro's cold intensity and Dirty Harry's ruthlessness. He explains he's so good at his job because it's all he does. The first part of this film follows Collins around Vancouver as he carries out his dirty work. For the fourth year he's shooting for Man of the Year, and even though he's a bit behind there's little doubt as you watch him operate that...
...dated twist on "Notes From the Underground," with sophisticated ballistics thrown in. Blown out by a decade of Vietnam and assassinations, Dostoyevsky's "man of consciousness" has become Scorcese's man without a conscience and body without a past: Travis Bickle, a taxi driver and ultimate nobody. Robert DeNiro gapes and mumbles into this challenging role, and somehow (DeNiro really astounds me at times) manages to convince us that not only his past but his entire identity has indeed slipped his mind...
...DeNiro's kooky, then homicidal aimlessness comes on very right for the times, but the world Scorcese has him encounter comes off very wrong. It seems that Scorcese figures that anyone who isn't down and out these days has turned into a plastic offspring of Madison Avenue. (Hence Cybil Shepard as the Tab-drinking campaign worker DeNiro falls in love with and the slick, wind-up presidential candidate he tries to assassinate.) So with nothing else but Barbies and Kens to identify with, Scorcese saves the film by throwing DeNiro into the arms of today's real myth-maker...
...normal world, perhaps, the story would, for it is often as difficult to fathom as the wanton brutality. Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family...
...Charles II at 7:45 and 10. Jackie Bisset and Nick Nolte play beautiful but vapid people in The Deep at the Cheri III (536-2870) at 8 and 10:15. New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets and Taxi Driver) and starring Robert DeNiro and Liza Minelli is at the Cinema...