John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981) has been one of my favorite movies seen I first saw it on German cable TV about twenty years ago.
There wouldn't be much sense in reviewing it - me using six hundred words to squee "I love it, I love it" looks like a waste of perfectly good blog space to me.
So I'm just going to list some of the details that made me especially happy this time:
- Parts of the music sound like further reduced E.S.G.!
- The relative disinterest the film takes in Snake's little gladiatorial match, which fits its anti-hero's poise perfectly. (And is exactly the thing some of Carpenter's later macho-fests like Vampires are missing)!
- The pure joy of having just about every single role cast with a b-movie hero(ine)!
- An ending that still says "Fuck you!" as beautifully as a perfect punk single!
Darling of the Day: "Snake Plissken!? I heard you were dead!"
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