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...mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. They've been doing the heavy acting while he's been out destroying the world in order to save...
...rookie does fine. He leaves the plot propulsion to the Scorsese grads--Keitel as a mob-controlled cop covering up a killing, De Niro as a flinty internal-affairs detective on Keitel's trail, Liotta as a good-bad cop--while he watches, listens, recedes into the wallpaper. Mining his own insecurity to mirror Freddy's, Stallone dominates these scenes with his poignant passivity. The sweet sadness in his eyes reveals something rare in modern films: how much pain and insult a decent man with zero self-esteem can endure. Of course, he and we know he's the hero...
...fictional director A. (Harvey Keitel) is wandering through the war-torn landscape of the presentday Balkans, Angelopoulos recalls the Homeric journey of Odysseus--a masterful blend of past and present suggesting the inseparability of the two. Fortunately, however, the film is not an exercise in "updating a myth": although many characters from the "Odyssey" are evoked, the film adopts a sufficiently individual identity and a notably different conclusion...
...they represent a clarity of vision (literally, the "gaze" of the film's title) from the past. This multi-layered sensitivity to the co-existence of history, and the present, shows up early on: the film opens by spanning, in one shot, people filming a boat years ago, and Keitel's A. in the present...
...said to have been improvised. A young Jodie Foster contributes a jarring, Academy Award-winning performance as a young prostitute: one moment she is undoing a belt buckle in businesslike manner, at another she is giggly and talkative while eating a piece of bread slathered in sweetness. Harvey Keitel is the epitome of the slimy pimp--he claimed to have rehearsed with actual specimens. His wimpish bravado and bared arms give him the appearance of an evil ape. With their mindless office banter, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks (playing Betsy's friend in the office) ably demonstrates the fatiguing triviality...