2nd & 3rd films shown Sat 27th Jan 2007
Film No. 33 Less Than Zero. Nick Love said "An example of an over-rated book being beaten by the film version. When researching my Eighties set film The Business it brought back all the neon lighting, the fashions and the emptiness of the era. It Has this amazing sadness and helplessness to it and at it's heart there's a career defining performance from Robert Downey Jr. It prefigures all that twitty teen stuff on Beverley Hills 90210 and the weedy OC"
Film No. 31 Breathless. Mark Kermode said "Critics howled at the blasphemy of Hollywood remaking Godard's A bout de souffle as a racy erotic thriller, but Jim McBride's joyous crime against cineacademia is a rip roaring rock n roll ride. Terrific location work makes this one of the best LA movies of the eighties, while a finger popping soundtrack jitterbugs between Jerry Lee, Link Wray and The Pretenders. Richard Gere looks great in ridiculous checked trousers, and even better out of them. Memorable scenes include Dick shagging a shower to pieces to the naked strains of Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds"
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Less Than Zero - perhaps the average score our group would give this one? Despite my love for you in Crossroads(mighta been the guitars), Jamie Gertz what the hell are you doing in this movie? Certainly not acting. Production design all the way here, with an on fire Robert Downey Jr. And the terrific mature performance of James Spader. Film sets out to show all negative and dangerous sides of drugs & young rich kids, surely against the grain at the time of making. The Parents aren't let off the hook here either. I really liked the death scene taking place in the wilderness of the desert, contrasting with the life-to-the-full city of neon and TVs.
Breathless - I can't read or write that word now without Jerry Lee Lewis howling it in my head. Reverbtastic! One of my fave films is Gun Crazy which is a motif throughout here. I've even got my own pair of check troosers. And have y'all seen that the Silver Surfer is on his way to our big screens? I think Jim McBride got it spot on, and made the kind of fast, fun and sexy flick that Godard's original probably was for its contemporary audience in 1959. Both should be watched on their own terms. Gere rips the screen up, in love with the camera, not the girl! I love all the intentional back projections, and those LA murals that create perfect pop art on screen. And that final freeze-frame is the perfect nod to the Nouvelle Vague.
"I'm caught in a trap..."
Less Than Zero - Its all on the screen really. Every scene is a well lit, well designed piece of neon art (its just a pity the actors have to be included in these tableau to ruin them). Best watched with the sound down (if you like the fabricated soundtrack buy the CD) and with your finger hovering over the pause button to get the best out of the wonderfully eighties set design.
Less Than Zero - so bright I wish I'd worn shades. Not the deepest or darkest view of the dangers of drugs and decadence but it has a go. Drugs are bad - you'll dance badly, end up at parties full of men in Pringle jumpers and sweat a lot. James Spader is perfectly bland, Jamie Gertz is mind numbingly wooden so Robert Downey Jr. shines as a disaster waiting to happen. If only he'd taken notes ... Not a classic film but a curious period piece for fans of the 80s.
Breathless - found it hard to really like this film. It was well made and well acted but difficult to feel sympathy for Richard Gere's creepily exuberant lover/stalker/conman/smooth operator or the object of his affection/victim/partner in crime Valérie Kaprisky. Stylish enough and very much it's own film despite being a remake. Just not for me.
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