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American Gigolo (1980)
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"Ever since the great humanistic film critic Manny Farber died last week at the ripe old age of 91, writer/director (and former film critic and Kael acolyte) Paul Schrader, who so eloquently has been making the tribute rounds to Farber, has been on my mind. I’ve always been a fan of Schrader’s writing – as much for his fearless risk taking as for his Travis Bickle triumphs. American Gigolo, his very-1980 follow-up to Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, in which Richard Gere’s rent boy to rich older women Julian Kaye falls for Lauren Hutton’s senator’s wife Michelle Stratton while simultaneously finding himself a suspect in the murder of a “rough trick,” is typical Schrader, forever probing overlapping lurid worlds with the attention of an obsessive pathologist. Even with mediocre acting, earnest dialogue sometimes bordering on the heavy-handed, and predictable hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold asides, American Gigolo is still a fine slice "
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"Melodrama bordering on trite exploitation film, American Gigolo survives almost solely on its interesting visual style and its "fringe" factor (that being the exploits of a high-class male prostitute). The slightly regurgitated story line of an accused searching for those that are taking every measure to set him up for murder has its moments of eye-rolling and laughable dialogue but somehow performances by Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton makes it a fairly enjoyable and visually appealing film. "
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"I had always thought of George C. Scott a hacky actor. He was always so BIG in everything he was in, and you were always aware that he was ACTING. But in the early 80s he found himself a niche… tormented father, a part he played with so much sensitivity here as a man of God wondering through Godless territory in search of his daughter who never returned home with her church group when they made a trip to LA. The anguish he conveys when faced with the truth about his daughters fate is powerful and heartbreaking. (Scott played a Father with a missing child of a different sort in The Changeling very effectively as well). Season Hubley (Mrs. Kurt Russell at the time) is great as well as his tour guide through the seedy underworld of sin he had only heard of before. Schrader is always a capable director with a great sense of style (American Gigolo, Cat People, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers). "
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"Watched Klute last night. I'm a bigger fan of Donald Sutherland than I am of Jane Fonda, but she was terrific in this movie. This film had a very crisp, clean look, considering the subject matter. Started thinking about the fascination cinema has had with prostitutes.Child prostitutes in Pretty Baby and Taxi Driver.Male prostitutes in American Gigolo and My Own Private Idaho.Offbeat movies: Whore, Crimes of Passion.Mainstream: Pretty Woman.Others: Leaving Las Vegas, Blonde Venus, A Streetcar Named Desire What's the fascination? "
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