I picked up this movie on a DVD rack for 99 cents.It was paired with another film called "Mob War". After seeing "Mob War" and then starting the second feature I almost abandoned the film after a few minutes and decided to stick with it.I made the mistake of thinking "Out of the Blue" was some seventies picture that mercifully fell through the cracks.It was thirty minutes into this film that I realized that I was watching an unjustly ignored masterpiece! Looking at the character of CeBe reminded me of the character of Holden Caulfield in the novel "Catcher in the Rye".I totally emphasized with her rebellion in response to her family's astonishing dysfunction.
In 1980 I was a teenager a little older than the Cindy Barnes character(I was surprised that she was played by an actress that was almost twenty years old!) and would've understood her and probably emulated her as I did with the character in Catcher in the Rye.I'm amazed this film wasn't more heavily promoted back then because it would have spoke well to the youth of that time if it had been given a chance.
This film has made me look at Dennis Hopper with new eyes.The fact is I never really thought that much of his film "Easy Rider" and certainly not "Colors" but "Out of the Blue" is an amazing achievement.I also have to say that I thought Linda Manz's performance was acting at it's best.It regrettable that actresses of her caliber get swept aside for the "classical standard" of beauty of these truly third rate actresses I see promoted today.
This movie is going to find it's audience because it's great art and great art always finds it's audience.
In 1980 I was a teenager a little older than the Cindy Barnes character(I was surprised that she was played by an actress that was almost twenty years old!) and would've understood her and probably emulated her as I did with the character in Catcher in the Rye.I'm amazed this film wasn't more heavily promoted back then because it would have spoke well to the youth of that time if it had been given a chance.
This film has made me look at Dennis Hopper with new eyes.The fact is I never really thought that much of his film "Easy Rider" and certainly not "Colors" but "Out of the Blue" is an amazing achievement.I also have to say that I thought Linda Manz's performance was acting at it's best.It regrettable that actresses of her caliber get swept aside for the "classical standard" of beauty of these truly third rate actresses I see promoted today.
This movie is going to find it's audience because it's great art and great art always finds it's audience.