William Friedkin's Jade (1995) makes its Blu-Ray debut this week (though, sadly, not in the unrated director's cut). Most people probably don't care much. It was a huge flop and the critics were flat-out mean to it. Much of the reason for its reception was the screenplay by the highly paid and much-reviled screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. His Showgirls had been released just a month prior, and critics were beginning to see him as something less than a super-scribe and more like a super-hack with some demented attitudes toward women. Ultimately, Showgirls became a cult classic, but Jade languished and disappeared.
It's hard to make much of a case for Jade as a masterpiece, but it deserves better than it got. My friend Bob Stephens took a crack at defending it in the pages of the San Francisco Examiner when it was initially released on video in 1996. He noted the film's...
It's hard to make much of a case for Jade as a masterpiece, but it deserves better than it got. My friend Bob Stephens took a crack at defending it in the pages of the San Francisco Examiner when it was initially released on video in 1996. He noted the film's...
- 4/10/2010
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
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