written by John Farris
starring Amy Irving & John Cassavetes
Century City, Los Angeles CA 1978
In honor of his seventy seventh birthday I thought it appropriate to present some images from the film by Brian De Palm that I admire most. When I first saw it, I was understandably appalled, but found that despite my best efforts to rid my memory of it, the images and the ideas behind them had found a permanent place in my mind. I began to see a connection between what De Palma was doing and the literary experiments of Isidore Ducasse in the late eighteen sixties. I remain of more than one mind regarding De Palma’s approach to film making, but I can’t help admiring his best efforts and above all this remarkable and very serious and bloody parody of the ending of Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
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