The Loveless (1984)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
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Long on expediency and short on subtlety, The Witch Who Came from the Sea is, essentially, Perkins' and Thom's The Misfits, for what it's worth.
Bigelow will forever have my heart as the women responsible for one of my foundational films as a younger asshole, Near Dark , whose band of nomadic Midwestern vampires led me to her Two-Lane Blacktop homage The Loveless (the debut vehicle for Willem Dafoe); her fascinating phallus-play Blue Steel; and then forward into the years-ahead-of-its-time Strange Days .
It's co-directed and co-written by Kathryn Bigelow ("Near Dark"/"Point Break"/"K-19: The Widowmaker") and Monty Montgomery (an actor who became a Hollywood producer of "Wild at Heart").
Written by former Voice columnist Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker belongs to that subset of Bigelow's work—including her biker-gang debut The Loveless and the bank-robbing-surfers caper Point Break—devoted to the ethos of hyper-masculine communities, the men who choose to live in them, and those who emerge as their leaders.
Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, who shot “United 93,” deploys similar hand-held methods here, and while Bigelow’s work is no less stylized than “Point Break,” or “Strange Days,” or her first feature, an arch homage to “The Wild One” called “The Loveless,” the style suits the material.
Bigelow has been on critics' watch lists since her hallucinatory early films "The Loveless" and "Near Dark."
It marked the directorial debut of Kathryn Bigelow, who would eventually become the first female helmer to win an Academy Award (The Hurt Locker).