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...competition for the entertainment dollar. The gloomiest forecast is of a nation of stay-at-homes getting all their fun from the giant video screen. "We are supporting a dying business, and the change is scary," says Paul Schrader, 34, who wrote Taxi Driver for Scorsese and directed American Gigolo. "Movies are on their...
...last edition of the film Review, distributed in September, condemns All That Jazz, American Gigolo, Friday the 13th, Little Darlings, Night Games, Used Cars and especially Dressed to Kill. Re the last: "A perfectly loathsome little movie" with fantasy sequences that seem to have "sprung from the kind of fevered but impoverished male imagination that feels threatened by any woman who is neither masochist nor prostitute...
Rowlands' young costar, John Adames, was all of seven when Gloria was filmed. But even now he possesses the dark good looks of a gnome gigolo. His mannerisms seem as if the director might have bought them at a movie-memorabilia shop: gestures from Cagney, a voice as wispy as Peter Lorre's, sardonic smiles from the early John Cassavetes. But they are perfectly suitable to the slapdash style and gravelly tone of a film that uses Method acting to conceal, and then reveal, the workings of a soft old Hollywood heart...
...SEEM to have passed the anti-hero phase in Hollywood. Dustin Hoffman has abandoned Benjamin Braddock and Ratso Rizzo for Ted Kramer. Even in "B" films like American Gigolo, the misfit hero is not glorified for his sins at the finale but redeemed, primped for "normal" society. But Wise Blood is not a Hollywood film, nor is it about normal society. In Huston's hands, Hazel Motes becomes not a hero or an anti-hero but a non-hero, one of us living out the internal battle between Jesus and Satan...
...uproar justified? Not entirely. True, Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is up to his usual grisly tricks: the killings are gruesome, and the simulation of S-M couplings will appall many moviegoers of all sexual persuasions. Yet Cruising is not antigay, any more than a film like American Gigolo is anti-heterosexual. Friedkin repeatedly - even tediously-reminds the audience that the S-M crowd is but a small, atypical subculture within a diverse homosexual world...