Crimewave
Sam Raimi / US, 1985 / 86 min.
After the enormous success of The Evil Dead director Sam Raimi asked Joel and Ethan Coen, who had just finished their debut Blood Simple, to co-author the script for Crimewave, a deliciously unusual mix of comedy, film noir and an homage to B movies.
The cooperation makes perfect sense: Raimi’s hyperactive visual style is perfectly suite to the Coen Brothers’ stylised dialogues. Later, Raimi would, in turn, act as the second unit director for the Coens’ The Hudsucker Proxy. As in the latter, the viewer meets the lead just as he is facing his doom: Victor Ajax (Reed Birney) is a typical Coen-like irritant being dragged from his cell on his way to the electric chair.
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Director
Sam Raimi
Production year
1985
Country
US
Original title
Crimewave
Length
86 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Part of
The Coen Brothers Complete
This summer will be dedicated to the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood’s most famous oddballs. Eye will screen most of their feature films as well as their short films and their solo output.
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