One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie.The more you watch John Boorman’s Point Blank, the more its terrain keeps shifting underneath your feet. It should be a conventional crime thriller about a Magnum-toting brute’s (Lee Marvin’s) quest for the $93,000 heist cache he’s been cheated out of. It ends up being something much more elusive and impossible to pin down: a ghost story that brings Alain Resnais’s unstuck-in-time fluidity into the familiar realm of U.S. pop? a photo essay on the piercingly lonely surfaces of 1967 Los Angeles? an allegory about our doomed mortal quest for the unattainable? There’s one image that always flashes in my head, Boorman-style, any time I feel unmoored by my surroundings—which, lately, has been all the time. It’s when sharklike Lee Marvin...
- 6/11/2020
- MUBI
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