The Stunt Man (Rush, 1980): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 5.50pm
Chicago Reader review:
Pretentious, overenergized, muddled, intellectually bogus, and very
entertaining for it. Richard Rush’s film concerns a cryptic fugitive
(Steve Railsback) who finds refuge, of a sort, with a movie company led
by a flamboyant, engagingly sadistic director (Peter O’Toole).
Experienced as pure motion, the picture is a rush, barreling
through highly charged action montages and baroque flights of rack
focus, though dramatically it becomes disappointingly conventional in
the last few reels. The theme is illusion and reality, but you’re better
off if you try to forget it. With Barbara Hershey, Allen Goorwitz, and
Alex Rocco.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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