1. Light Sleeper | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA
Sep 28, 2022 · I always thought this movie was good, and now I think it's even better than I gave it credit for. May that be said of any of us who are closer ...
Many of these August ’92 movies I’ve been reviewing have been grueling, but there are some good ones among them, even great ones. To make up for the toil of
2. Light Sleeper | Rotten Tomatoes
The mood and characterization is great, but the meandering nature of the plot felt unsatisfying at the end. Edit: also came to this movie, now, via jetlag. I ...
A Manhattan drug dealer with a wealthy clientele, John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) reevaluates both his trade and his life after discovering that his supplier, Ann (Susan Sarandon), is planning on quitting the business. When John runs into his old flame Marianne (Dana Delany), he sees reconnecting with her as a way to change for the better, but she is reluctant to rekindle the romance. Complicating John's life further is a series of drug-related murders that has the police pegging him as a suspect.
3. Light Sleeper Reviews - Metacritic
Schrader seems to have found his way. In Light Sleeper, he attains a new, fluid emotionalism. The movie is a small but absorbing mood piece, a canny insider's ...
A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.
4. Light Sleeper movie review & film summary (1992) | Roger Ebert
The movie is familiar with its life of night and need. It finds the real human qualities in a person like the Susan Sarandon character – who, in a crisis, ...
People get into situations like this. They start doing drugs when they're young, and then they start dealing drugs in order to pay for them, and then, if they
5. 'Light Sleeper': The ghostly souls of Paul Schrader - The Reveal
May 17, 2023 · Two films, two journal entries. “June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, ...
In his 1992 indie drama with Willem Dafoe, Schrader reworked 'Taxi Driver' into another urban tale of alienation and violence. But with a twist.
6. Reviews of Light Sleeper - Letterboxd
Watched by Lukey Spooky 14 Jul 2024. Hazy, melancholic, and ... The cinematography was beauteful, this might be the best shot Schrader film.
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7. Light Sleeper Reviews - TV Guide
Not a nightmare, but a comfortable, familiar dream; while the movie purports to be about someone who can't sleep, it's actually about someone who won't wake up, ...
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8. Light Sleeper Movie Tickets & Showtimes Near You | Fandango
With his deliberate speech patterns and haunted, reptilian good looks, Dafoe is an almost nobly sad presence at the center of the film.
Meditative drug dealer (Willem Dafoe) tries to change his life.
9. LIGHT SLEEPER - Movieguide | Movie Reviews for Families
From start to finish, LIGHT SLEEPER is filled with occultism, drugs, fornication, nudity, violence, murder, suicide, and foul language. Actually, taking drugs ...
LIGHT SLEEPER focuses on John LeTour, a 40-year old drug delivery man and his "bad luck." Although John hasn't taken cocaine in two years, he continues to
10. Light Sleeper Review - Criterion Forum
Jan 18, 2021 · That moody Michael Been music that plays over the film still manages to pack a nice low-key punch (as do some gun shots that appear in the film) ...
An impressive neo-noir, which sees writer/director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Hardcore, Blue Collar) revisit rainswept New York, Light Sleeper tells of John LeTour (Willem Dafoe, Auto Focus), a drug dealer servicing a high-society clientele of Manhattan professionals. When his boss (Susan Sarandon, The Hunger) announces she is going straight and John encounters an old flame he still loves, his life is thrown into crisis. As he becomes involved in a police investigation surrounding a mysterious drug death, John prowls the night-time streets in search of redemption.
11. Light Sleeper - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
With his deliberate speech patterns and haunted, reptilian good looks, Dafoe is an almost nobly sad presence at the center ...
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12. Light Sleeper - Rolling Stone
Aug 21, 1992 · It's difficult to imagine anyone but Schrader controlling the moral turbulence in his script for Light Sleeper, a boldly resonant thriller that ...
Critics often rag on Paul Schrader for writing films about scumbags who find violence a shortcut to salvation. The conventional wisdom is that Schrader’s scripts play better if Martin Scorsese directs them (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) and that when Schrader directs Schrader, the result is a heavy, humorless mess. But that’s not always true. In […]
13. Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper - Filmmaker magazine - Fall 1992
Light Sleeper shows us the gradual disintegration of one man's identity, an unraveling that begins when friends die, romance sours, a career ends, and, more ...
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