Most of the film involved just two actors, and Schneider held her own with Brando in a stunning confrontation with sex and death.
The girl was Maria Schneider, a 20-year-old with an innocent face, a woman's body and an electrifying presence. The man was Marlon Brando, long acknowledged as the finest screen actor of his generation. LOS ANGELES-It was, said the critic Pauline Kael, perhaps the most important artistic event since the first performance of Stravinsky's "The Rites of Spring." She was referring to the 1973 premiere of "Last Tango in Paris," a film by Bernardo Bertolucci which dealt in explicit detail with a brief affair between a middle-aged man and a girl barely out of her teens. Or an imprint of their fugitive state of mind. Or perhaps it's a flash-forward to a memory they'll cling to for the rest of their lives. So, the whole film could be seen as a flashback - a noir convention that emphasizes the forces of fate, since the ending of "their story" (even if we don't know what it is) has already been determined from the opening shot. We soon discover that, at the point the title appears, the boy and the girl have yet to meet. The man who would later direct "Rebel Without a Cause" establishes them as innocents and outsiders, star-crossed lovers who "were never properly introduced to the world we live in." Dissolve to an aerial shot of a truck barreling through a dusty wasteland. The shot seems to exist out of time - perhaps an idealized moment they once shared, or would never have.
#Starcrossed 1985 review movie
"They Live By Night" is a prototypical young-couple-on-the-run movie ("You Only Live Once," "Gun Crazy," "Bonnie and Clyde," "Badlands"), and this tabloid-style opening sets it up breathlessly. They smile, they kiss, and then something off-screen (and unheard on the soundtrack, though signaled by an jarring shift in the musical score) causes them to react with fear and alarm. An attractive young couple (Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell) are nestling in close-up by the flickering light of a fireplace. We just need to believe, and take that leap of faith.Nicholas Ray's directorial debut, "They Live By Night" (1949), begins like a trailer and then slams us right into the opening titles of the feature. It also shows us that miracles can come in all forms. Think of something unearthly, reaching out to humanity, learning about us. It requires patience, because it's not your typical alien invasion feature. With a bigger budget and all star cast it could easily have been a GREAT movie! As it stands, it's nice and not too long. The conclusion is quite emotional and thought provoking for such a simple movie. In the meantime, two FBI agents are on the case. However, it's quite the remarkable object and requires physical contact with these men and their friends. A group of guys witness an object crash in a field at night, it turns out to be some kind of space rock. Special effects feel like they've come from the 1980s but that's okay, I'm not a huge fan of CGI anyway.
The FBI agents aren't the best (dialogue or acting), though I'm so used to seeing Mulder and Scully that it could easily have been an X Files. Think a cross between Body Snatchers, Starman and Cocoon. Encounter might not have a big budget or A List cast but its quite the feature. Funnily enough one of my absolute favourites is Starcrossed (1985). I grew up in the 80s so have watched my fair share of low budget movies. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.
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