The Day of the Locust (1975)
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
Synopsis:
In 1930s Hollywood an aspiring art director falls for a would-be starlet who in turn has designs on a walking meal ticket by the name of, wait for it, Homer Simpson.
Review:
Nathanael West's novel of three losers chewing themselves up in the reflected glow of the studio system is given full-blooded treatment by Schlesinger. A critical success, with impeccable technical credits and acting from scions of the New Hollywood, but with its overwrought and lengthy narrative culminating in misery it did not woo audiences.
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
Synopsis:
In 1930s Hollywood an aspiring art director falls for a would-be starlet who in turn has designs on a walking meal ticket by the name of, wait for it, Homer Simpson.
Review:
Nathanael West's novel of three losers chewing themselves up in the reflected glow of the studio system is given full-blooded treatment by Schlesinger. A critical success, with impeccable technical credits and acting from scions of the New Hollywood, but with its overwrought and lengthy narrative culminating in misery it did not woo audiences.
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
Synopsis:
In 1930s Hollywood an aspiring art director falls for a would-be starlet who in turn has designs on a walking meal ticket by the name of, wait for it, Homer Simpson.
Review:
Nathanael West's novel of three losers chewing themselves up in the reflected glow of the studio system is given full-blooded treatment by Schlesinger. A critical success, with impeccable technical credits and acting from scions of the New Hollywood, but with its overwrought and lengthy narrative culminating in misery it did not woo audiences.