Think Film Noir, Not Tween Vampires, as ‘Twilight’ Arrives at Film at Lincoln Center
This ‘Twilight’ is only nominally a tale of murder, deceit, and intrigue. It’s more a 100-minute tone poem that just happens to have at its center a solitary Joe of gruff demeanor and signature trenchcoat.

An outburst from a member of the audience watching “Twilight” let the rest of us know that he felt it was “indulgent.” No, he wasn’t reacting to the films populated by tween vampires and werewolves and Kristin Stewart, oh my, but rather to the 1990 picture from Hungarian director György Fehér. The movie hadn’t been rolling for five minutes when the critical summation was handed down — and, you know, it’s not altogether wrong.
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