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About Me
Some Desert Island Discs
GANG OF FOUR: Entertainment
LOVE: Forever Changes
THE BEACH BOYS: Sunflower
AIR: Talkie Walkie
LIQUID LIQUID: Liquid Liquid
DEL SHANNON: Home & Away
!!!: Louden Up Now
THE CURE: Disintegration
JOHN BARRY: Body Heat
THE SMITHS: The Queen is Dead
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Born to Run
RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS: Blank Generation
ELVIS COSTELLO: Get Happy!!!
TELEVISION: Marquee Moon
MARVIN HAMLISCH: The Swimmer
JOHN WILLIAMS: Superman
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Back to Mono
MARVIN GAYE: What's Going On
GOBLIN: Dawn of the Dead
THE WHO: Quadrophenia
TALKING HEADS: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
ARTHUR B. RUBINSTEIN: Blue Thunder
GIORGIO MORODER: American Gigolo
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Larry Levan, Journey Into Paradise
BUZZCOCKS: Operator's Manual
VANGELIS: Blade Runner
TANGERINE DREAM: Thief
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Crème De La Crème: Philly Soul Classics And Rarities
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Cruising
ELMER BERNSTEIN: Heavy Metal
BELLE & SEBASTIAN: If You're Feeling Sinister
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hearing is Believing, The Jack Nitzsche Story
CURTIS MAYFIELD: Superfly
THE FEELIES: Crazy Rhythms
DELTA 5: Singles & Sessions 1979-1981
MICHEL LEGRAND: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
SLOWDIVE: Souvlaki
ESG: A South Bronx Story
TALK TALK: It's My Life
NEW ORDER: Substance
DAVID BOWIE: Low
ENNIO MORRICONE: Once Upon a Time In America
FRANCOISE HARDY: Comment Te Dire Adieu
5 comments:
Another gem of a film. I really like this one - very underrated in both Polanksi and Ford's filmographies. It was one of several fascinatingly complex roles Ford took on in the 1980s. Too bad these films weren't commercial sucesses as he stopped taking chances in the '90s and onwards.
Agreed. I recently revisited on Blu-ray and it's really a top-shelf thriller. Great score by Morricone and Ford does very well playing a more vulnerable, everyman character, a variation on the Hitchcock - Stewart partnership in something like THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH.
Not to mention a fantastic downbeat ending. No wonder if bombed at the North American box office!
Yes, I suppose it is pretty downbeat, but never strikes me as unusually so, or that surprising, although I suppose it could be construed as such when one considers the film is top-lined by just about the biggest Hollywood star at the time. It's an odd hybrid of commercial thriller and something somewhat artier because of its French setting and direction by Polanski. So, yes, it's not surprising it wasn't a big success...I didn't know it was a bomb.
Yeah, it didn't even make back it's $20 million budget. Ouch. Not good considering what a huge movie star Ford was at the time.
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