Dark Star

I have a special place in my heart for first films of directors who went on to have successful careers. Very few of them come close to reaching the same heights as the films that come later, but they often display the seeds of the greatness that is to come. There’s an innate roughness to many of them that end up both working against the films to some degree and also have their own charms. John Carpenter’s Dark Star is a good example of a talented director finding a way to make his shared vis...