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...Meyer didn't quite go that route. His '70s indie work is like the late period of any personal filmmaker, from Fellini to Bergman: the same, but more-so; apotheosis merging with self-parody. Some vaunted directors, like Hitchcock, run out of steam as they pass retirement age. Meyer didn't wind down; he got more wound up. Cartoons of cartoons. Ballistic bazooms. Giganta-goddesses like Ushi Digard spurred the poet in his loins ("her large, burnished melons deeply cleaved...
...Director Nakata, like his characters, makes some missteps. Too many of his scares depend on Kuroki's or Kanno's agonizingly long head turns?a stilted device that feels like little more than Hitchcock-by-numbers. The film's climax?unsurprisingly, it involves a lot of water?is marred by an implausible and unnecessary epilogue. It makes you wonder if Nakata is weary of the horror genre?or, perhaps, is evolving beyond it. Suspenseful as it is, Dark Water is more successful as a portrait of the bond between a single mother and her child in alienating urban Japan...
Last time out, Spielberg tried humanizing Kubrick. This time (working from a Philip K. Dick story and an excellent script by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen), he borrows Hitchcock's Catholic belief that we are not all criminals, but we are all guilty; our humanity is our original sin. Anderton--on the run for a murder he hasn't thought of committing of a man he doesn't know--is oppressed by guilt because his young son was kidnapped while they were at a public swimming pool. Indeed, water, as both symbol and character, is everywhere in this film...
...Because he saw lots of English movies when he was a kid, and that child, apparently, is a stern father to the man. Don't expect that one to be panoramic either. Scorsese isn't interested in the Ealing comedies; he's likely to concentrate on the early Hitchcock melodramas, on "The Blue Lagoon" and other British films aired on 50s network TV and on the flourishing, festering genius of Michael ("Peeping Tom") Powell...
...star in Hollywood as well as Italian movies. The list is long and enticing: Valentina Cortese, who made the 40s "Thieves Highway"; delicate Pier Angeli and her twin sister Marisa Pavan; Magnani, who won an Oscar for her first Hollywood movie, "The Rose Tattoo"; and the ever-intoxicating Valli (Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case...