The Loveless

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david c Watch on Criterion 8.5/10 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The Wild Ones it ain't. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a throwback to gang and biker flicks from the 50s. Dafoe is pretty solid here and I like the nihilism, but it's not as memorable as I was hoping for. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/20 Full Review Audience Member Kathryn Bigelow's film debut, conceived of and co-directed with fellow Columbia student Monty Montgomery, a future producer for David Lynch who plays the cowboy in "Mulholland Dr.". Willem Dafoe (in his film debut) stars as the leader of a bike gang travelling through the south to get to a stock car race. One of the bikes breaks down in a small town and the locals clash with the bikers. This sounds like an exploitation film, but it's more of an art film that bathes in the exploitation cool of the biker image (a bit like Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising"). In a quite literal sense, nothing happens for a lot of the film as people stare at each other meaningfully. Nonetheless, I found it mesmerizing and it is vaguely reminiscent of a Lynch film with all of the weirdness distracted. Rockabilly musician Robert Gordon co-stars as a fellow biker and provides most of the score. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Intoxicating, compelling and sensual. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Before director Kathryn Bigelow became widely recognizable with her later effort in 1987's NEAR DARK, 1991's POINT BREAK, 1995's STRANGE DAYS and of course, right down to 2009's Oscar-winning war drama THE HURT LOCKER, she made her first feature debut in a low-budget independent drama called THE LOVELESS when she was still studying in NYC as a film student. THE LOVELESS is a stylized and eccentric genre movie that pays homage to 1950s biker movies (notably Marlon Brando's THE WILD ONE) with arthouse sensibility. This movie is also notable as Willem Dafoe's first lead role. Read more at http://caseymoviemania.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-loveless-1982.html#more Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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