Š-DR- U TURN p12

23/01/2014 19:17 par tellurikwaves

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p11

23/01/2014 19:14 par tellurikwaves

Modern noir with a dark twist...

Author: centurymantra-2 from Michigan USA
25 July 2000

Brilliant & hallucinatory cinematography, impeccable use of music, and a handful of dark, edgy character sketches all work together very nicely to make this bleak, dark-humoured desert noir an overlooked highlight of Oliver Stone's career. The highly evocative atmosphere plays out against the Arizona desert in a way that (in addition to foreshadowing some of the work done in Terry Gilliam's own twisted little masterpiece 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas') seems to mirror, in a more subtle and tasteful manner, much of Stone's work in 'Natural Born Killers'. However, rather than hitting us over the head with whatever socially charged 'message'

 he may have been attempting to convey in that film, here he is simply content to let it build up a thick and steamy ambience that moves our hapless comrades on towards their own impending personal apocalypse. Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, and Jennifer Lopez all turn in great performances and Billy Bob Thornton's eccentric character sketch elevates what may be defined as a bit part to a far more relevant status. Modern noir with a few dark twists and a taste all it's own that's well worth digging into...for those who have a taste for this kind of thing, if you know what I mean.

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p10

23/01/2014 19:12 par tellurikwaves

Š-DR- U TURN p9

23/01/2014 19:09 par tellurikwaves

Probably not the best advertisement for Superior, AZ (extr)

Author: noizyme from Escondido, CA
5 February 2005

This is one of my favorite Oliver Stone films. It has everything (cheating incestuous sex, chopping off digits, a dumb hick mechanic, a blind native American who wants Dr. Pepper all the time, etc etc etc) that a well-rounded movie needs, plus it was completely done in a comic fashion. It is closest to Stone's other film "Natural Born Killers" by way of stylish camera shots and the addition of comedy into a dramatic setting.

Sean Penn brilliantly plays the lead character, whose car blows a radiator hose out in the middle of the Arizona desert, and the closest town is that of Superior, AZ, a dirt-road town with barely 1,000 people living there, if that. Penn goes through hell from the beginning when random characters in the city want something from him and in return, it drives him to try his best to get the hell out of Superior. Everything during his days in Superior is centered around money and the fact that he has hardly any. So he gets schemed into murders, and he gets whatever little he has taken away from him (his train ticket gets ripped up by the local hoodlum, TNT, again brilliantly played by Joaquin Phoenix, and he has several full bottles of beverages broken for different reasons). Therefore, he's constantly running in circles to get out of this town.

There is an all-star cast (back then, and now) of actors: Jennifer Lopez (a better singer than actress), Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Bob Thornton (the best among the bunch as the hick mechanic), Sean Penn, Claire Danes, Liv Tyler (only for a second in the train station), and Jon Voight...all packed into a nice DVD. The music had that comic, light-hearted side to it (with the country sound of a jew's-harp played over violin or whatever, etc) which helped you to see the irony that is driving him to madness in this town. Again the camera shots were awesome, and they had that Oliver Stone quality of the 90's where he would switch frames with the villain of the movie with an animal skull and switch the point-of-view to see what the actors are seeing, and so on.

Overall, though, (bad point aside) it is a brilliant movie that is easy to watch if you like the other Stone films. I had to give it a 9/10 for great performances, great music, awesome story, and everything in between. Go out and buy it if your a fan of any of the actors listed above, or if you are trying to find a great weekend film with friends.

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p8

23/01/2014 19:06 par tellurikwaves

Autour du film

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p7

23/01/2014 19:03 par tellurikwaves

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p6

23/01/2014 19:00 par tellurikwaves

Sites Externes

Miscellaneous Sites

• Abandomoviez.net (Spanish)
• American Cinematographer, October 1997
• AveoftheStars.com
• BioscoopAgenda (Dutch)
• Bomis: U Turn Ring
• CINeol (Spanish)
• Cinopsis - interview with director Oliver Stone (French)
• DVDwolf
• Film.Com.Tr - Synopsis and Pictures (Turkish)
• Filmhai - info (German)
• Filmhai - Photo Gallery
• Filmstarts.de - Photo Gallery
• go2flix Quickie Links
• IMCDb.org: cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles seen in this production
• MattFind.com - Reviews, trailer, pics, info
• MovieMaze.de (German)
• MovieMeter (Dutch)
• movies.ch (German, French, Italian)
• New Video Film-Lexikon (German)
• Retro Junk
• SoundtrackCollector - Soundtrack Information
• Spielfilm.de - Filminfos (German)
• Stopklatka.pl (Polish)
• Virgin Media Movies
• Zelluloid.de (German)

Photographs

• cineImage - Swiss movie press archive
• elFilm.com - Image Gallery
• KinoBank.org - Pictures
• MovieStillsDB - Photo gallery
• OutNow! Image Gallery
• elFilm.com - Posters
• filmposter-archiv.de - German movie poster
• MovieMaze.de - Posters
• MoviePosterDB.com
• Theatrical Movie Poster

Video Clips and Trailers

• elFilm.com - Trailer (MP4)
• MattTrailer.com - Trailers (Flash)
• MyMovieScripts.com - Trailer (Flash)
• Sinematurk - Trailer (Flash) (Turkish)
• ZuGuide.com - Trailer (Flash)

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p5

23/01/2014 18:57 par tellurikwaves

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p4

23/01/2014 18:54 par tellurikwaves

Š-DR-U TURN de Oliver Stone (1997) p3

23/01/2014 18:47 par tellurikwaves

Cast

Sean Penn: Bobby Cooper
Nick Nolte  : Jake McKenna
Jennifer Lopez  : Grace McKenna
Powers Boothe : le shérif Virgil Potter
Claire Danes : Jenny
Joaquin Phoenix  : Toby N. Tucker
Jon Voight: l'aveugle
Billy Bob Thornton : Darrell
Abraham Benrubi : un biker
Richard Rutowski : un biker
Aida Linares : Jamilla
Ilia Volokh : Sergei
Valeri Nikolayev : M. Arkady
Brent Briscoe : Boyd
Sean Stone : le garçon à l'épicerie
Bo Hopkins : Ed
Julie Hagerty : Flo
Sheri Foster : la mère de Grace
Liv Tyler : la fille à l'arrêt de bus
Laurie Metcalf