If there is a problem with this 150-minute movie, it's that it's edited too short. The color palette looks like late 1940s Fox Dramatic Technicolor: LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN.
Location shooting in Buffalo and nearby cities help. The visuals, as you would expect from director Guillermo del Toro, are impeccable, from the ghastly exhibits at the side shows, to the Biedermeyer decor of Doctor Blanchett's office - clearly she studied in Vienna. It's a much more accurate telling of the story, not only for the stuff the Hays Office made them leave out, but the shocker of the ending. It's based, like the 1947 flop starring Tyrone Power, on William Lindsay Gresham's novel. Strathairn croaks from bad booze Cooper gave him by mistake, he and Miss Mara shuffle off to Buffalo, where they do a mentalist act and, at the behest of psychiatrist Cate Blanchett he communicates with the dead for the rich and powerful.
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Mostly keeping his mouth shut, he learns how to do a mentalist and spook act from David Strathairn, while boffing Strathairn's girlfriend Toni Collette and lusting for electric girl Rooney Mara.
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You should definitely check this movie out.īradley Cooper burns down a house, then hops a rattler to a carnival someplace. Along with Cooper and Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, David Strathairn, Mary Steenburgen, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins and a host of other people put on splendid performances. I don't know if I would call this the year's best movie, but it's one of the most impressive. That and the production design create one of the most mind-blowing things that you'll ever see it certainly earned its Academy Award nomination for production design. Cate Blanchett's performance as the psychologist is what makes the movie, in my opinion. Bradley Cooper plays a man who joins a traveling carnival but begins letting his belief in his own abilities get the better of him, especially after he starts associating with a morally ambiguous psychologist. He now adds "Nightmare Alley", a disturbing look at a man's overconfidence. Over the past thirty years, Guillermo del Toro has directed some of the most haunting movies: "Cronos", "Mimic", "The Devil's Backbone", "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Shape of Water". I will say, lower your expectations and don't count on something worthy of the best picture Oscar nomination this got. Del Toro's a terrific director, the movie looks amazing, and Blanchett is phenomenal, so I won't say skip it. The movie does finally go into runaway freight train mode almost two hours in, and that last part is intense and gripping and everything you'd want it to be, but really this whole movie should have been 90-100 minutes and a good finale doesn't erase the boredom I'd felt for most of the previous hour. This should have had the brisk quality of classic noir, instead of the slow boil noir here. It wasn't so much that less time should have been used up in the first act as that every single thing should have been shorter. But at a certain point, where what I'd call the "second act" begins, I looked to see how much was left of the movie, thinking it was about the time in a noir when things really get going like a runaway freight train, and realized it was only half over! I felt pretty restless at that point, in spite of Cate Blanchett's pitch-perfect performance. It's visually gorgeous and pulls you in with its ambience and bits of mystery. Willem Dafoe is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in last year’s The Florida Project.I liked Nightmare Alley at first. The fact that he now has an actor of Dafoe’s calibre in tow bodes well for the long-gestating adaptation finally getting to see the light of day. Norton wrote the script, will direct, produce, and star. His journey to find out who is behind his mentor’s death takes him to a Harlem night club and then eventually to shadowy developer Moses Randolph and his brother Paul (Dafoe). Essrog witnesses the stabbing death of his mentor by some thugs. Motherless Brooklyn is set in 1954 and tells the story of private detective Lionel Essrog who suffers from Tourrette syndrome. Owner of one of the most fascinating faces in all of Hollywood, Willem Dafoe, is joining the cast of Edward Norton’s adaptation of the novel Motherless Brooklyn.ĭafoe will be playing the brother of the villain, a ruthless and corrupt developer who is designing New York neighbourhoods as slums so his people can buy up all the property. Edward Norton, meanwhile, has been trying to adapt Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 detective novel for nearly 15 years.
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