Though it went unreleased by MGM in 1984, Nothing Lasts Forever has recently been rediscovered thanks to the magic of the Internet. Starring Zach Galligan as Adam Beckett with supporting roles by Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Sam Jaffe, this is a surrealist sci-fi comedy about a young man trying to make his way as an artist in a Port Authority-controlled New York City. It’s a bizarre and often hilarious trip of a film that makes it obvious why MGM didn’t know what to do with it in the mid-'80s. Had it been made ten years later, when independent cinema had become celebrated in the mainstream, the film’s legacy might have been quite different.
Written and directed by Tom Schiller, Nothing Lasts Forever takes on the guise of an early Hollywood picture. From the shot composition to the acting style to the credit sequences to the sound stages and editing, this movie succeeds where so many other films have failed -- capturing the textures of 1940s filmmaking. There are a few actors that don’t appear to be in on the joke (Adam’s aunt and uncle come to mind, with the actors using a more modern style of performance), but generally if you didn’t recognize the actors, Schiller might have you convinced that this movie came straight out of the 40s.
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