Blu-ray Review – Last Embrace

After scraping through most of the 1970s with intelligent B-movies, director Jonathan Demme took a sharp turn toward the cinematic with 1979's "Last Embrace," an extended Hitchcock homage starring Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin. Bathed in a warm, excitable score by Miklos Rozsa and shot by the great Tak Fujimoto, "Last Embrace" certainly isn't sloppy. However, this adaptation of the book "The 13th Man" (written by Murray Teigh Bloom) doesn't offer the snap Demme is looking for, and while the production has aspirations to be "North by Northwest," it mostly comes to attention in frustrating fits. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com