Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
["The Last Wave"] begins so brilliantly and with such promise that it's no real surprise that the closer it gets to its apocalypse, the less effec...
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Critical Essay by Dan Yakir
Peter Weir's The Last Wave is an ambitiously conceived and dramatically executed film that combines a variety of genres—the psychological thriller, the court...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
Weir's occultism isn't even faintly erotic, and except for the first sequence The Last Wave is over-deliberate; the camera movements are ominous as if by ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
[Weir's] films—lush, beckoning fantasies, promising exotic vistas from strange new lands—have a seductiveness befitting an emergent cinema. Unfort...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
From the very outset of [The Last Wave, an] intelligently imaginative film, Peter Weir creates an eerie sense of nature gone awry….
Supernatural forces are evid...
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A 24-year-old California surfer topped a daredevil contest Saturday that had competitors riding waves more than four stories tall.Greg Long of San Clemente was among two dozen elite surfers who too...
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Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
Big wave contest goes to Californian
