Word: kershner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by Irvin Kershner...
Director Irvin Kershner's style is no less out-of-touch. He accompanies the eye-gouging murders with creepy music and lighting. The film's obligatory romantic interlude, between Laura and a detective (Tommy Lee Jones), is set to violins. The acting is out of a '50s B movie. In the effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over...
Lucas said when he was making Star Wars that he was giving up directing, and, true to his word, SWII will be directed by Irvin Kershner (The Flim Flam Man and Raid on Entebbe). "But I've always thought," he says, "that sooner or later, somewhere down the road, I will go back and do another one. But it will be toward the end of the cycle, about 20 years from now." Would you believe...
Directed by IRVIN KERSHNER...
...movie, which is at least an improvement on the original, serves as a good example of what a talented director can do with intractable material. Irvin Kershner, who is known for such pocket dramas as The Hoodlum Priest and Loving, is working for the first time on a large scale. With the excellent assistance of Cameraman Owen Roizman (The Exorcist), he brings off some fine set pieces: a buffalo hunt, the sacking of a fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing...