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CAST: DENNIS HOPPER, TARYN POWER, DEAN STOCKWELL, TOPO SWOPE, ALFRED RYDER, BARBARA FLOOD. INTRODUCING MICHAEL EMIL AND ZACK NORMAN. 1976 92 min Color R. |
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| An Army Sergeant, returned from Vietnam to accompany a comrade's body home for burial, is crossing America by train. Haunted by hallucinatory configurations of reality and terror, the soldier becomes involved with various passengers, actual and imagined, in this chilling film that, according to Anaïs Nin, "TAKES US DEEP INTO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE." Dennis Hopper gives the performance of his career as the tormented, lost innocent, putting together an incredible portrait of confusion, violence and vulnerability as his American dream is shattered. | |||
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"'TRACKS' IS A POWERFUL, ABSOLUTELY FRESH EXPERIENCE, BRILLIANTLY MADE BY HENRY JAGLOM AND CONTAINING DENNIS HOPPER'S BEST, MOST IMPRESSIVELY INWARD PERFORMANCE!" |
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-ARCHER WINSTEN, NEW YORK POST
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| "'TRACKS' POSSESSES A FRESHNESS OF VISION AND A CREATIVE ENERGY THAT REVIVES ONE'S FAITH IN THE POTENTIAL OF FILM!" | |||
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-KATHLEEN CARROLL, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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| "HENRY JAGLOM IS A REVOLUTIONARY FILMMAKER; RATHER THAN GIVING HINTS AS TO THE INNER STATE OF HIS CHARACTERS, HE REPRODUCES THEM. WITH HIS INTERIOR AND SENSUAL APPROACH TO TELLING A STORY, HE MAY WELL TURN OUT TO BE THE MUCH NEEDED INTERPRETER BETWEEN THE SEXES." | |||
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-JOAN BUCK, BRITISH VOGUE MAGAZINE
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| "AN UNUSUALLY INCISIVE, REVELATORY FILM, 'TRACKS' IS EXTREMELY WELL ORGANIZED, PERFECTLY ACTED AND DIRECTED WITH AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF FINESSE AND INTUITION BY HENRY JAGLOM." | |||
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-GENE MOSKOWITZ, VARIETY
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| "HENRY JAGLOM HAS CREATED IN 'TRACKS' AN EXTRAORDINARY MOVIE, AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT ABOUT AN ERA TRANSFIXED BY NOSTALGIA FOR THINGS AS THEY NEVER REALLY WERE. FASCINATING!" | |||
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-DEREK MALCOLM, THE GUARDIAN, LONDON
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| "HENRY JAGLOM TAKES US, WITH 'TRACKS', DEEP INTO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE. A TERRIFYING MASTERPIECE." | |||
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-ANAIS NIN
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