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02-26-2009, 08:11 PM
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Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://in.forumw.org/title/tt0063803/
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Zina Bethune ... Girl
Harvey Keitel ... J.R.
Anne Collette ... Young girl in dream (as Ann Collette)
Lennard Kuras ... Joey
Michael Scala ... Sally Gaga
Harry Northup ... Harry
Tsuai Yu-Lan ... Girl in dream fantasy
Saskia Holleman ... Girl in dream fantasy
Bill Minkin ... Iggy at Party
Philip Carlson ... Boy in Copake (as Phil Carlson)
Wendy Russell ... Gaga's Girl
Robert Uricola ... Boy with Gun
Susan Wood ... Girl at Party
Marissa Mathes ... Girl at Party (as Marrisa Joffrey)
Catherine Scorsese ... Mother
Description: J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt that Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him.
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By VINCENT CANBY
J. R. (HARVEY KEITEL), a young, essentially decent Italian-American, has grown up in a comfortable New York City apartment that is protected by his mother, lit by holy candles and sanctified by china figurines of Virgin Marys who wear the wan, distant smiles of tired airline hostesses. J. R. goes to the movies—he cherishes the memory of "Rio Bravo" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"—and he walks under marquees announcing "Ulysses." Although out of a job, he doesn't lack funds. He drinks beer with the boys at the neighborhood friendship club and occasionally he sleeps with "broads," as distinguished from "girls," who are the virgins one is supposed to marry.
J. R., the troubled hero of Martin Scorsese's first feature film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?", is the sort of young man who, in a total confusion of values, can one minute offer to "forgive" the girl he loves for having been forcibly raped, and the next minute accuse her of being a whore. Puritan Roman Catholicism, the kind that bedeviled Stephen Dedalus and Studs Lonigan, is alive and ill and in the movies.
J.R.'s dense wrong-headedness is real and commonplace but not especially affecting in the film that opened yesterday at the Carnegie Hall Cinema. Scorsese, who is 25 years old and won a number of festival prizes for shorts made while he was a student at New York University, is obviously a competent young filmmaker. Working on what must have been a minuscule budget, he has composed a fluid, technically proficient movie, more intense and sincere than most commercial releases.
It is apparent that the Italian-American milieu is a first-hand experience, but the vision Scorsese has made from it is detailed in the kind of self-limiting drama and dialogue that Paddy Cheyefsky abandoned some time ago, and in images that look very much like film school poetry. There are lots of panning shots across gray, squalid cityscapes and around interiors made easily grotesque with objects of religious adoration. I must say that I like Scorsese's enthusiasm even while wincing at some of the results, as in a love scene in which the camera swoops around a nude couple as if the photographer were a vertiginous Peeping Tom.
Scorsese is effective in isolating the moments of "Marty"-like boredom that J. R. accepts as concomitants to life — a drunken beer party that almost turns into a gang bang, and a curious visit to the country during which J. R. is made vaguely uncomfortable by all the fresh air and nature. However, the director, who also wrote the original story and screenplay, hasn't succeeded in making a drama that is really much more aware than the characters themselves. The result is a movie that is as precise—and as small—as a contact print. The performances by Keitel, Zina Bethune (as his girl) and Lennard Kuras and Michael Scala (as his companions) are good and in the same scale as the film.
The experience of watching "Who's That Knocking at My Door?" was not entirely drab, however. It reminded me of another, supremely wrong-headed character, the young Sicilian in Pietro Germi's "Seduced and Abandoned" who adamantly refused to marry the girl he had made pregnant because she wasn't a virgin. Good imported Italian social comedy, which once was as common as Gorgonzola here, seems to have become quite rare.
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Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://in.forumw.org/title/tt0063803/
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Zina Bethune ... Girl
Harvey Keitel ... J.R.
Anne Collette ... Young girl in dream (as Ann Collette)
Lennard Kuras ... Joey
Michael Scala ... Sally Gaga
Harry Northup ... Harry
Tsuai Yu-Lan ... Girl in dream fantasy
Saskia Holleman ... Girl in dream fantasy
Bill Minkin ... Iggy at Party
Philip Carlson ... Boy in Copake (as Phil Carlson)
Wendy Russell ... Gaga's Girl
Robert Uricola ... Boy with Gun
Susan Wood ... Girl at Party
Marissa Mathes ... Girl at Party (as Marrisa Joffrey)
Catherine Scorsese ... Mother
Description: J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt that Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him.
*******************
By VINCENT CANBY
J. R. (HARVEY KEITEL), a young, essentially decent Italian-American, has grown up in a comfortable New York City apartment that is protected by his mother, lit by holy candles and sanctified by china figurines of Virgin Marys who wear the wan, distant smiles of tired airline hostesses. J. R. goes to the movies—he cherishes the memory of "Rio Bravo" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"—and he walks under marquees announcing "Ulysses." Although out of a job, he doesn't lack funds. He drinks beer with the boys at the neighborhood friendship club and occasionally he sleeps with "broads," as distinguished from "girls," who are the virgins one is supposed to marry.
J. R., the troubled hero of Martin Scorsese's first feature film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?", is the sort of young man who, in a total confusion of values, can one minute offer to "forgive" the girl he loves for having been forcibly raped, and the next minute accuse her of being a whore. Puritan Roman Catholicism, the kind that bedeviled Stephen Dedalus and Studs Lonigan, is alive and ill and in the movies.
J.R.'s dense wrong-headedness is real and commonplace but not especially affecting in the film that opened yesterday at the Carnegie Hall Cinema. Scorsese, who is 25 years old and won a number of festival prizes for shorts made while he was a student at New York University, is obviously a competent young filmmaker. Working on what must have been a minuscule budget, he has composed a fluid, technically proficient movie, more intense and sincere than most commercial releases.
It is apparent that the Italian-American milieu is a first-hand experience, but the vision Scorsese has made from it is detailed in the kind of self-limiting drama and dialogue that Paddy Cheyefsky abandoned some time ago, and in images that look very much like film school poetry. There are lots of panning shots across gray, squalid cityscapes and around interiors made easily grotesque with objects of religious adoration. I must say that I like Scorsese's enthusiasm even while wincing at some of the results, as in a love scene in which the camera swoops around a nude couple as if the photographer were a vertiginous Peeping Tom.
Scorsese is effective in isolating the moments of "Marty"-like boredom that J. R. accepts as concomitants to life — a drunken beer party that almost turns into a gang bang, and a curious visit to the country during which J. R. is made vaguely uncomfortable by all the fresh air and nature. However, the director, who also wrote the original story and screenplay, hasn't succeeded in making a drama that is really much more aware than the characters themselves. The result is a movie that is as precise—and as small—as a contact print. The performances by Keitel, Zina Bethune (as his girl) and Lennard Kuras and Michael Scala (as his companions) are good and in the same scale as the film.
The experience of watching "Who's That Knocking at My Door?" was not entirely drab, however. It reminded me of another, supremely wrong-headed character, the young Sicilian in Pietro Germi's "Seduced and Abandoned" who adamantly refused to marry the girl he had made pregnant because she wasn't a virgin. Good imported Italian social comedy, which once was as common as Gorgonzola here, seems to have become quite rare.
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