Word: milieus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less zealous eye, the show proves almost the reverse. Even Haskell concedes that well before he left for Europe, Hartley had developed a style that was distinctively his own, deeply rooted in his native Maine. After Berlin it took him nearly 20 years of floundering among styles and milieus (though his technical skill sustains even his most differentiated works) and a return to New England to recover that authority with the triumphant and unique landscapes of his last ten years. Hartley was an American original who should never have left home...
...makes good on its ambitions only sporadically. Friedkin is as skilled at capturing the ways of hard-boiled cops as he is at depicting the sweaty haunts of dangerous sex. The film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these two milieus: gays cruise in cop costumes, and off-duty cops cruise in S-M drag. Both worlds are inhabited by such fine character actors as Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox and Don Scardino...