GRADE: A-
Underrated by just about everyone except Quentin Tarantino (who
wears his influences on his sleeve and probably overrates this
one), Brian DePalma’s remake-cum-homage of Michelangelo
Antonioni’s classic Blow-Up (and
Francis Coppola's The
Conversation, actually) isn’t as skillful as the earlier film
at questioning the nature of "reality," but culminates
nevertheless in a devastating sleight-of-cinema that
reverberates in the brain for days afterward. John Lithgow and Dennis Franz (lately of the TV series NYPD Blue) both play supporting roles, but John Travolta, on his way out of vogue, stars as the B-movie sound man scouring Philadelphia in search of the perfect scream. By the end of the movie, he finds it.
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