It strikes so hard in my memory because that story is the first place I ever heard about that deadly Cherenkov blue, which you write about brilliantly here.
Thank you. I don't think I've read "The Green Hills of Earth" in decades, so I'll remedy that.
I do need to make more of an effort to catch up on her work, because, as we talked about, The Hurt Locker is an absolutely fascinating possible-failure of a film in comparison to this one, and anyone who can literally make two equal and opposite mistakes of that degree of interest is worth paying closer attention to.
Your description made me want to see The Hurt Locker, both for Jeremy Renner and the compare-and-contrast. She also has a lot in her early filmography that looks fascinating—The Loveless (1982) gave Willem Defoe his first starring role as a '50's biker, Blue Steel (1990) is a serial killer/vigilante cop thriller starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Point Break (1991) appears to be a neo-noir about surfing, with Keanu Reeves. If those movies live up to their premises, I'm going to wonder why I've never heard of her as a great pulp filmmaker as well as all the rest.
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Thank you. I don't think I've read "The Green Hills of Earth" in decades, so I'll remedy that.
I do need to make more of an effort to catch up on her work, because, as we talked about, The Hurt Locker is an absolutely fascinating possible-failure of a film in comparison to this one, and anyone who can literally make two equal and opposite mistakes of that degree of interest is worth paying closer attention to.
Your description made me want to see The Hurt Locker, both for Jeremy Renner and the compare-and-contrast. She also has a lot in her early filmography that looks fascinating—The Loveless (1982) gave Willem Defoe his first starring role as a '50's biker, Blue Steel (1990) is a serial killer/vigilante cop thriller starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Point Break (1991) appears to be a neo-noir about surfing, with Keanu Reeves. If those movies live up to their premises, I'm going to wonder why I've never heard of her as a great pulp filmmaker as well as all the rest.