![]() Its ecomony of style, though, would do credit to Don Siegel. It may even remind you a little bit of ''Alphaville,'' if ''Alphaville'' had been directed not by Jean-Luc Godard but by Federico Fellini in an uncharacteristically antic mood. ![]() Set in the not-too-distant future (1997), the film works so effectively as a warped vision of ordinary urban blight that it seems to be some kind of hallucinatory editorial. Carpenter's most ambitious, most riveting film to date. This isn't the nightmare of someone who decided to stay in town last weekend but the startlingly eerie premise of ''Escape From New York,'' the brutal, very fine-looking suspense melodrama by John Carpenter, the man who directed the horror-classic ''Halloween,'' the not-so-hot ''The Fog'' and the very good, samll-budgeted ''Assault on Precinct 13.'' ''Escape From New York,'' which opens today at Loew's State One and other theaters, is by far Mr. Life is a permanent scavenger hunt, a nonstop game of hide-and-seek - when you're ''it'' you're dead. ![]() There are no services, no government, no work. The once great buildings are mostly shells, but because these Manhattanites don't read much, and don't care about books one way or the other, the Public Library on 42d Street doesn't look to be in quite the state of disrepair of the other landmarks. The bridges have been mined and walled off. The place is a zoo without bars, but there's no way out. MANHATTAN is a giant island-prison inhabited by humanity's dregs - murderers, terrorists, thieves, swindlers, perverts of all persuasions, petty criminals and people who are permanently disoriented. ![]()
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