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Screen THE RUNNER MUMBLES OFF THE TRACK Personal best is a film that makes me feel I should come out of the closet, or get into it. Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly are both actresses with...

Screen (April 1982)

Screen INNOCENCE ABROAD COSTA-GAVRAS'S MISSING' UNLIKE THE CHARACTERS in Circle of Deceit, which I was discussing in my last column, those in Costa-Gavras's Missing are not alienated, existential...

Screen (March 1982)

Screen VICIOUS CIRCLE PASSING THE MORAL BUCK VOLKER SCHLONDORFF'S Circle of Deceit is a film based upon a Catch 22. Its own title implies the circularity of its argument. It deals with a German...

Screen (March 1982)

Screen MISSING LINKS FIRE WHEN READY I ONCE HAD a professor who could read Shakespeare aloud with the original, Elizabethan pronunciation. It was quite a performance. Elizabethan English is more...

Screen (February 1982)

Screen THE LEGEND LIVES ROOTIE ZOOT SUIT I WENT to Zoot Suit the way a housewife from Connecticut might go to a matinee of Woman of the Year or Dreamgirls. I went just for the music, and the...

Screen (January 1982)

Screen EARLY RETIREMENT ENCOUNTER WITH TWO SENIOR CITIZENS Being A young curmudgeon myself, I'm always glad to make the acquaintance of an old curmudgeon. I always try to treat him with the...

Screen: (September 1981)

Screen POET IN RESIDENCE THE THEATRICAL & THE PERSONAL THE SENTIMENTAL favorite this summer is a film called Stevie, about the poet Stevie Smith. Nothing could seem less likely to succeed in...

Giving it the Gate (December 1980)

Screen GIVING IT THE GATE CIMINO'S 'HEAVEN' BITES THE DUST NOTHING THAT'S IN Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate is as revealing as something he has said about it: "When we were finishing the battle...

THE SCREEN (March 1976)

THE SCREEN When Sidney Furie's Gable and Lombard begins with a match dissolve from the real Gable and Lombard to James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh, the actors who play the title roles, the film is...

THE SCREEN (January 1976)

Of kings and Killers The Screen As you can tell from John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King and Sam Peckinpah's The Kilter Elite, the life of an adventurer has never been an easy one. It is as...

THE SCREEN: (July 1975)

THE SCREEN No industry devotes more executive think time to forecasting trends than the movie business does, and the current wisdom in this arcane specialty seems to have it that prognostication...

THE SCREEN (January 1975)

DIVORCE SWEDISH STYLE THE SCREEN Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage is a movie about talk-a movie about a woman who learns to speak for herself, and thereby liberates herself from her husband. As I...

THE SCREEN (February 1971)

DEPRECIATED DOZEN THE SCREEN It seems to me that making up a list of the ten best movies each year is critical boondoggling. The films on the lists, and especially at the top of them, are already...

THE SCREEN (February 1971)

SPECIES AMERICANA THE SCREEN The tribal aspirations of the middle-class American male are reflected in the way he spends his money, not the way he earns it. As writer-director of Husbands, John...

THE SCREEN: (December 1970)

MICHAEL CUDDIHY FRIENDS The mesquite tree wants us to be friends. I need only touch his new green leaves to be convinced. He lets me inhabit his blue shadow. We have the same thirst for...

THE SCREEN (September 1970)

the Cheyenne. While a cavalry detail is retrieving her, the Cheyenne attack and inadvertently set her free again, this time with Pvt. Honus Grant (Peter Strauss), the only other survivor of the...

Westerbeck, Colin L.

Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.

Westerbeck, Colin.L Jr.

Westerbeck., Colin L. Jr.

Westerfield, C W Pratt, Anne Porter, William C Hilton, Nancy G

Westerfield, Jr. Nancy G.

Westerfield, Nancy G

Westerfield, Nancy G.

Western, William

Westervelt, George

Weston, M. W.

Weston, Margaret Willoughby