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...dreaming. Marlowe's Los Angeles is constantly alight with all-night supermarkets, all-night traffic, all-night venality. He is awake to the phonies and moral bankrupts around him, and the audience sees L.A. as he sees it. The restless, light-drenched photography (by Altman veteran Vilmos Zsigmond), and nervy editing and soundtrack express the visual and aural equivalents of Marlowe's discontent and curiosity...
There are some excellent supporting performances, most notably by the superb and subtle Miss Tristan, an actress who is not used often or deeply enough; by Eileen Brenan as a bitchy, blowsy barfly; and Richard Lynch as a sadistic homosexual. The film also has some remarkable photography by Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance, McCabe and Mrs Miller), whose graceful, supple lighting manages to be both realistic and quietly sensuous...
...grimaces, interrupted by an occasional shriek of anguish. Like Director Robert Altman's previous film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Images has its own distinctive ambience - chilly, remote and for bidding. This is owing, perhaps, to the valuable presence of Altman's two skillful collaborators, Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and Production Designer Leon Ericksen. Altman, however, is unable to go much beyond atmospherics. Substance, as ever, eludes...
Rarely, except in Robert Flaherty's documentaries, has nature been so truly or so tangibly rendered on the screen. Deliverance is splendidly photographed (by Vilmos Zsigmond) and edited (by Tom Priestley). Images sweep by the eye in great, violent cascades that transcend Dickey's prose renderings of the same terrain...