Sunday, 25 October 2015

Back to the Future (1985 Robert Zemeckis & co-scr)

...with Bob Gale. It's the anniversary. Christopher Lloyd, and his Heath Robinson collection of toys, steals the film. Liked the touch that the 1955 car disappears into a cinema playing 'Atomic Boy'.

Michael J Fox, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover (not a fan), Thomas F. Wilson.

Shot in that very saturated colourful 80s style (by Dean Cundey) which I think the French might have introduced with the 'cinéma du look'. Music by Alan Silvestri.

It's an ingenious story, with a certain debt to It's a Wonderful Life.

The excessive product placements are funny - I can't tell you the number of times the JC Penney department store logo is in shot.

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