Publication details
Cutterova cesta: film noir podle Ivana Passera
| Title in English | Cutter's Way: Film Noir Made by Ivan Passer |
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| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Otázky filmu a audiovizuální kultury. Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty O1. |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Ivan Passer; Cutter's Way; Film Noir; US cinema; history of Czech cinema |
| Description | Cutter's Way (aka Cutter and Bone, 1981) is the most famous American feature directed by Ivan Passer (Intimate Lighting, Born to Win, Stalin etc.), Czech-born filmmaker who left Czechoslovakia after Russian invasion in 1968. Cutter's Way belongs to the neo-noir wave of the post-Vietnam era: set in Santa Barbara, it deals with a bitter handicapped Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter who obsessively solves a murder mystery, pinning the crime on a powerful oil tycoon and attempting to blackmail him. Cutter's Way is more of a character study than it is a murder thriller, more a story of friendship and love than a tale of social corruption. This offbeat, grim and disturbing film with nightmarish atmosphere, amazing performances (John Heard, Jeff Bridges, Lisa Eichhorn) and ingenious directing is "one of the most unusual and neglected films noir of recent decades" [Naremore, 1998: 302]. |
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