PLUS - TWEET FROM NICK NEWMAN, REVIEW FROM ROGER MOORE
Domino is set to open at cinemas in Russia beginning June 6, via distributor Bazelevs. So now, aside from California and New York on May 31st, we have Domino opening in Hungary May 30th, Russia June 6th, and Italy June 20th.
Yesterday, Nick Newman tweeted, "Not hyperbolic to say Brian De Palma’s Domino features the single greatest transition from final image to directorial credit in cinema history."
And last Friday, syndicated film critic Roger Moore had the first "official" review of Domino to come out of the gate:
No, what we”re here for are the homages to Hitchcock, a rooftop nod to “Vertigo” and a finale that conjures up memories of “Stagefright” and Doris Day’s turn as a Hitchcock blonde in “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”DePalma interjects random bits of up-to-the-minute surveillance tech into a movie whose clumsy, cut-and-paste script sees Danish cops having basic European geography and geopolitics explained to them. And to us.
But that payoff “bravura sequence” has multiple points of view, a crowd, lots of slo-mo and the threat of violence on a vast scale, all of it set to a bolero — not Ravel’s “Bolero,” just a pastiche of it.
And friends, if the entire movie had been as good as this Spanish last act, they’d have had something here.