Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 Directed by Irvin Kershner
Synopsis
Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes.
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Decent yet uneven American giallo that doesn't quite live up to its excellent pedigree (a star-studded cast, a script penned by John Carpenter, and direction by Irvin Kershner) but is still quite enjoyable as one of the few true giallos that Hollywood has made.
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It was decent but not a keeper for me..worth renting
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An attempted thriller that doesn't thrill too much. While Laura has an amazing ability there is very little time spend contemplating its causes. It is a nice showcase of the young Tommy Lee Jones and of seventies New York at its most lavish. Rene Auberjonois is the best thing in it, all his scenes are brilliantly intuitive.
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Viewed on Netflix
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I really need to track down Carpenter's original script, and see what this movie could have been.
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Decent yet uneven American giallo that doesn't quite live up to its excellent pedigree (a star-studded cast, a script penned by John Carpenter, and direction by Irvin Kershner) but is still quite enjoyable as one of the few true giallos that Hollywood has made.
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Not a great movie per se, but a great example of cinema of the time. Has a superstar cast and production, and the fashion.. oh, the fashion.
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Tremendously dated, but the performance by young Tommy Lee Jones makes it all worth it. He wrote his own last soliloquy!
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From what I understand, Eyes Of Laura Mars was John Carpenter's first big studio film. He wrote the script and it was directed by Irvin Kershner, who apparently got the gig directing The Empire Strikes Back because George Lucas was impressed by an early cut he saw of the film. I thought that was a kinda neat bit of Hollywood history.
Anyway, Eyes Of Laura Mars stars Faye Dunaway as a trendy New York City photographer named Laura Mars who's making waves in the art community with her challenging, risque work which depicts exorbitant amounts of violence, death, and nudity. Suddenly, she begins to have visions of people she knows being murdered through the killer's eyes. Effectively, she'll go blind…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.