Milo's interest in Anne, it turns out, is more than professional, but not exactly what she thinks. Time he offers her a deal: he'll let her live, if she'll do anything and everything he asks. She flees again, to New Mexico again he finds her. Milo, who never gives up, recognizes the text of a lipstick ad as one of Anne's catchphrases, and tracks her down.
Months pass Anne has severed all ties with her past and re-established herself in Seattle as an advertising copywriter. They kill her boyfriend, Bob (Charlie Sheen), but she escapes. Milo (Dennis Hopper) and his dopey partner Pinella (John Turturro) to silence her first. They offer her a place in the federal witness protection program, but patrician mob boss Lino Avoca (Vincent Price) sends top-of-the-line but eccentric hitman Killer Leo Carelli (Joe Pesci) spots her, but Anne escapes and goes to the police. Driving home one night, she suffers a blowout on a deserted roadĪnd, while looking for help, witnesses a Mafia rubout.
A simple mistake by the distributor Artisan? Or are they simply trying to pull a fast one on the consumers? Either way, I strongly suggest that you either wait for a proper release on DVD or purchase the VHS version instead, which to my knowledge remains as the director's cut.Maybe Hopper changed his mind about which cut he prefers, but I highly doubt that.Though clearly intended to be something more than a routine thriller, BACKTRACK never transcends its generic limitations, and the surprisingly good cast ultimately founders.Ĭonceptual artist Anne Benton (Jodie Foster) creates electronic pieces (supplied by real-life artist Jenny Holzer) that flash glib but superficially significant statements, and her work has begun to attract major media attention. Oh, and the back of the box credits Michel Columbier as composer, which is very odd considering not a note of his music is present in this version. This version is available on video.I don't know why, but the DVD release is in fact the shorter European cut w/ alternate score-despite keeping the "Backtrack" title and Hopper's name on the credits as director. Then there's the director's cut, "Backtrack", which runs 116 minutes (more or less), and features a different score by Michel Columbier. The director of the film, Dennis Hopper disowned this version-it is credited to Alan Smithee instead.
"For those who don't know, there are two versions of this film:The European version titled "Catchfire", which runs 98 minutes (more or less) and has a music score by Curt Sobel. Instead, it's a muted yet rambling confession about the sinner inside a filmmaker, which would be great if Backtrack were, say, Rear Window. Deeply self-conscious, with a calculatingly meditative tone that becomes inseparable from Hopper's tenacious voyeurism (the film's most obvious commercial hook-Foster's nude scene-is almost prayerful in its pathology), Backtrack wants to be a confessional fable about the artistic process. The resulting isolation squeezes Foster's creative spirit, forcing her to confront doubt and self-loathing-everything that artists suffer as the price for self-expression. But instead of killing her, Hopper's killer falls in love, demonstrating his passion by stalking her at a distance, "owning" her every move and keeping her in exile from ordinary life. more » ays a conceptual artist who witnesses a mob hit, thus becoming a target herself for an assassin (Hopper). Dennis Hopper directed, as well as acted in, this moody mess from 1989, which was barely seen for a couple of years until getting a boost from the rising fame of its star, Jodie Foster.
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