Volume 41, Number 4 · February 17, 1994
Oliver Stone's USA
By Robert Stone
Heaven and Earth
a film directed by Oliver Stone, produced by Arnon Milchan, by Robert Kline, by A. Kitman Ho, by Oliver Stone
Warner Bros
Salvador, the 1986 movie that introduced the directorial work of Oliver Stone to the world, is a film of considerable interest. Most people who saw it were impressed by its gritty, cinema-verité style and its atmosphere of headlong, unpredictable violence. Everything about it seemed authentic, from the squalid anti-glamour of its mean Central American streets to its adrenaline-happy, pot-head post-Vietnam journalist characters and the absence of stars. James Woods as a hip newspaperman had a seedy, quasi-psychopathic, fascinating presence and the film's urgency benefited greatly from his wired, high-risk performance. Moreover, its plot incorporated events right out of the recent headlines about US policy in Central America. It was a vivid opinionated movie, replete with energy and talent, that attracted, and deserved much attention.
Review, 3418 words
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