The Eyes Of Laura Mars (DVD)

An interesting film. I'll be brief on the outline of the plot because the juicy bits to ponder derive from the issue it tackles. Laura Marrs is a photographer, arty and controversial. Not for her the bog standard nice piccies of top models, she opts for violence, destruction and anger to portay her shots, and as a result she has become famous and much debated. During a photoshoot she becomes alarmed by a vision that overtakes her. She can see someone as they are being murdered. And more confusingly for her, she sees them as though she herself is carrying out the murder. And it gets worse. She knows the victim. Upon finding out that it has ...  Read the complete review

Featuring major award-winning actors Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as other recognisable names and faces such as Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois and Raul Julia, ‘Eyes of Laura Mars’ is a reasonably prestigious production from 1978 which seems to have been largely forgotten since its initial release. Now, with DVD release, comes an opportunity to rectify that situation… THE FILM Laura Mars is a fashion photographer currently causing much controversy with her violent and provocative pictures taken for both photo galleries and advertising concerns. When, suddenly, people she knows start being murdered, Mars begins to suffer ...  Read the complete review

Laura Mars, (Faye Dunaway) is a leading and controversial fashion photographer in 70's New York, her work is full of menace, a fusion of fashion and violence. Mars begins to have visions, visions of colleagues being murdered and instantly, they begin to die in just the way she has seen. Cue a suitably scenery chewing performance from Dunaway and some truly dreadful cheesy dialogue between Laura and her policeman lover (Tommy Lee Jones). Made in 1978 it is a period piece now however there is much to like in the film, the storyline is clever and intriguing, it is easy to imagine the film being controversial in the 70's, Helmut Newton's work was used ...  Read the complete review

"Eyes Of Laura Mars" was released in 1978 with a classy looking, three-tone publicity poster. Looking at it, you would not know exactly what to expect from the movie. This sure was part of the attraction. How fitting that Faye Dunaway should interpret the role of Joan Crawford a couple of years later in "Mommie Dearest": "Eyes Of Laura Mars" is indeed a sort of up-do-date 'woman's picture' for the Seventies, the kind of stuff you would get from Crawford in the Forties (say, Curtis Berhardt's "Possessed"). True to the 'woman's picture' genre, this murder mystery melodrama adopted (in a ...  Read the complete review