From Script to Scream
Richard Mayne, 18 December 1980
The Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman
by Robert Phillip Kolker.
Oxford, 395 pp., £8.50, April 1980,0 19 502588 1 Show More
by Robert Phillip Kolker.
Oxford, 395 pp., £8.50, April 1980,
“... watching a horror movie – involved but powerless, transfixed by uncontrollable events. As Simone deBeauvoir once quaintly put it, ‘when I go into a cinema, my praxis is paralysed.’ Many films resemble dreams or nightmares: many directors are Luna-park sorcerers, turning the spectator into a spellbound ... ”