Category: 1983
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Baby It’s You is a John Sayles film I never expected to see… it’s John Sayles for hire. Sayles has had a lucrative career as a ghostwriter of blockbusters (Apollo 13 famously had his name on one poster… but not after the WGA got done). But Baby It’s You is the first of his films…
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Godawful adaptation of Robert Ludlum espionage novel about TV journalist Rutger Hauer (who’s excellent despite not having his accent ironed out to play American white bread) getting recruited to spy on his pals, who may or may not be enemy agents. The film’s a shocking waste of its cast–Burt Lancaster, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, and…
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Period pieces and biopics tend to fail, at least ones made since 1950. I was just reading something about the growing audience want for realism in movies–this movement growing in the 1960s and 1970s (though the location shooting of the late 1940s is certainly a precursor)–that want made period pictures and biopics difficult… there needed…
The Stop Button 