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Marvin Gaye’s voice warms the soundtrack as he sings “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” but the occasion is a death: it’s 1983, and Lawrence Kasdan introduces us to the characters from his masterpiece as they prepare to attend the funeral. from your best friend. In other words, “The Great Crawler” is being distributed again, in summer theaters, and this is great news: it’s time to remember the time when Hollywood wasn’t mired in the mire of superheroes, huge budgets and countless sequels, the time when a good script based on In an original idea it could fill cinemas across the planet. Why was “The Great Creep” such a success in capturing with spectacular clarity the canceled dreams of an entire generation, thus “contaminating” the pink bubble of the 80s with a bit of genuine human bitterness? As for the actors, would William Hart, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum and Meg Tilley have become stars if they hadn’t starred here?
“Horizon: An American Epic (Chapter 1)” is the title of Kevin Costner’s new film and it says “Chapter 1” because three more will follow. Meanwhile, this here takes three hours. Which means something very serious must be going on here. What exactly is happening? Costner, who loves Westerns, decided to retell “how the West was won”, and the hero he plays, a cowboy who doesn’t talk much but doesn’t lift much, takes under his wing a woman and a child she cares for, at the same time. time when a gang of killers is after him. In its passage, but also in the corridors of the narrative, Indians, bandeirantes, generals and poor things. In 1930s Hollywood, the masters of the genre would have told it all in a 90-minute film, but the most important thing about Costner’s film is that he truly believes he has a great story to tell.
No “big” event happens in Stergios Paschos’ new film titled “The Last Taxi Driver”: A 50-year-old taxi driver, who would love to live the life of a great writer but that didn’t suit him, and is now married and has a son, spends a night of passion with a younger woman, and falls madly in love. The most banal one could say, but Paschos is well aware of the banality of the story and the “tragedy of a ridiculous man” that lurks beneath. What ultimately results is an exemplary photographed love noir that tells in a suggestively sarcastic style a story of love obsession that magically “turns around” at the end, with a simple and clever directorial invention that catches you completely off guard. Acting award for Kostas Koronaios at the Thessaloniki Festival and best Greek film from the Panhellenic Association of Film Critics.
It also comes out “A Quiet Place: First Day”, a prequel to John Krazinski’s blockbuster horror. This costs a little, pays off quickly, but we didn’t have much to scare here – although we were amused by the film’s undead cat who doesn’t let out a single meow throughout the film, lest the bloodthirsty monsters hear. Finally, don’t miss your reissue “Straight History”, from David Lynch’s wonderful film, with Robert Fonsworth crossing America on his little lawn tractor to find his sick brother. As a friend says, anyone who doesn’t cry at the last scene is probably an idiot.