The Abyss (Cameron, 1989): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.15pm
This is a 35mm presetnation.
Chicago Reader review:
The third collaboration of writer-director James Cameron and producer
Gale Anne Hurd was a big-budget action thriller about a group of
underwater oil diggers who go looking for a lost nuclear submarine and
wind up encountering extraterrestrials. Shot largely underwater and with
direct sound, it had a visceral kick to it that enhanced Cameron’s
flair for high-tech special effects and streamlined storytelling, but
the attempt to extract the essences of several genres (cold-war
submarine thriller, love story, Disney fantasy, pseudomystical SF in the
Spielberg mode) and mix them together ultimately led to giddy
incoherence. This “special edition,” actually Cameron’s original
three-hour cut, is 27 minutes longer than the 1989 version, and
according to most descriptions it’s also vastly superior.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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