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AuthorAPPLE, MAX
AuthorAPPLETON", "HARRY S. ASHMORE, SHELLEY
AuthorAraquistain, Luis
AuthorArcher, Richard
AuthorARCINIEGAS, GERMAN
AuthorArcone, Julius J. Umansky, George Smerkin, Winston Dancis, Michael C.
AuthorArcone, Michael C.
AuthorARCUS, M. K.
AuthorAREEN, JUDITH
AuthorARENSBERG, SUSAN
AuthorARGUS, M. K.
AuthorARIDA, TOUMA
AuthorARMODR, RICHARD
AuthorARMOR, JACK
AuthorARMOUR
AuthorARMOUR, RICHABD
AuthorARMOUR, RICHARD
AuthorArmour, Richart
AuthorARMSTRONG, JOHN P.
AuthorARNALL, ELLIS
AuthorARNOLD
AuthorARNOLD, G L.
AuthorARNOLD, G. L.
AuthorArnold, H.
AuthorARON, RAYMOND
AuthorARONSON, GREGORY
AuthorArsenault, Raymond
AuthorARTICLE
AuthorARTICLE, REINHOLD NIEBUHR
AuthorArundel, Martin
AuthorARZT, DONNA
AuthorASAHINA, ROBERT
Paid articleOn Screen (November 1983)
On Stage PETER BROOK'S CARMEN' BY LEO SAUVAGE Until a few weeks ago, the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center had been dark for two years, and it was not exactly a shining light for some...
Paid articleFlimsy Fall LineUp (October 1983)
On Screen FLIMSY FALL LINEUP BY ROBERT ASAHINA The Big Chill opened 21st New York Film Festival (September 23-Oc-tober 9) with the dull fizz of a deflating balloon. Lawrence Kasdan's tale of...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1983)
On Screen REVIVING THE ROSENBERG AFFAIR BY ROBERT ASAHINA Eight years ago, I spent a month or so at a dinner party one evening in Washington. The first course was a spinach and mushroom salad,...
Paid articleHyping Mediocrity (September 1983)
LOn Screen HYPING MEDIOCRITY BY ROBERT ASAHINA HOLLYWOOD'S recent output has been so dreary that reviewers, otherwise unable to meet their quota for quotable copy, apparently have talked...
Paid articleSentimental Bergman (August 1983)
On Screen SENTIMENTAL BERGMAN BY ROBERT ASAHINA Ingmar Bergman has announced that Fanny and Alexander will be his last movie, although he will continue to direct operas and plays for television...
Paid articleSummer Quintet (June 1983)
On Screen SUMMER QUINTET BY ROBERT ASAHINA When Michael Ritchie is good, he excels Downhill Racer, The Candidate, The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, and particularly Smile rank among the most...
Paid articleStale Popcorn (May 1983)
On Screen STALE POPCORN BY ROBERT ASAHINA I sighed with relief when Return of the Jedi ended Not because Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) had escaped the clutches of Darth Vader (Dayid Prowse) and...
Paid articleThe New Gift Wrapping (May 1983)
On Screen THE NEW GIFT WRAPPING BY ROBERT ASAHINA t's amazing what you can find in Pittsburgh if you know where to look Deep in the heart of a run-down neighborhood there is a bar called...
Paid articleThe Sayles Phenomenon (April 1983)
On Screen THE SAYLES PHENOMENON BY ROBERT ASAHINA i regard John Sayles mostly with admiration. At 32 he has already written two novels, a collection of short stories, an off-Broadway play, plus...
Paid articleConcepts in Hollywood (March 1983)
On Screen CONCEPTS IN HOLLYWOOD BY ROBERT ASAHINA "T-T JL JLow did that movie ever get made?" I had been asking myself increasingly of late. The last time I was in Hollywood, my puzzlement was...
Paid articleActors and Scripts (February 1983)
On Screen ACTORS AND SCRIPTS BY ROBERT ASAHINA Peering down her long nose, arms folded across her matronly bosom, Kate Nelligan seems like a cross between a stem nanny and a prissy librarian....
Paid articleUNEVEN TRIO (January 1983)
On Screen UNEVEN TRIO BY ROBERT ASAHINA It's a toss-up which is more tiresome: watching the movie version of Sophie's Choice, or reading the original. William Styron's novel is more jerry-rigged...
Paid articleHoliday turkeys (December 1982)
On Screen HOLIDAY TURKEYS by robert asahina The Verdict Paul Newman plays Frank Galvin, a sleazy Boston lawyer who is so busy drinking he can't be bothered to chase an ambulance. The only bar he...
Paid articleTeen Tales (November 1982)
On Screen TEEN TALES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Anyone who has survived adolescence can tell you that it is no joke. Though growing pains may not be fatal, they can scar you for life. But you would never...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1982)
On Screen MADE IN GERMANY by robert asahina Werner Herzog is not an artist, he is an engineer. In the latest film he has written, produced and directed, Fitzcarraldo, scheduled to be the finale...
Paid articleOn Screen (September 1982)
On Screen DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES BY ROBERT ASAHINA one of the few readers who weren't charmed by John Irving's The World According to Garp. In fact, I freely admit to not finishing it; the...
Paid articleMixed Effects (July 1982)
On Screen MIXED EFFECTS BY ROBERT ASAHINA Let's face it as a (sub-)literary genre science fiction is trash Enjoyable sometimes, but junk nonetheless And films in this category are trashier still,...
Paid articleTOUGH GUYS (June 1982)
On Screen TOUGH GUYS BY ROBERT ASAHINA If you're Sylvester Stallone, what do you do for an encore to an encore? It must have been hard to resist making Rocky III, and harder still to dream up a...
Paid articleOn Screen (May 1982)
On Screen SEX THREE WAYS BY ROBERT ASAHINA BETTER TO WATCH than to describe, Diner's virtues are modest and its shortcomings are obvious. The film is set in 1959 and reportedly draws heavily...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1982)
On Screen BOY MEETS BOY, GIRL MEETS GIRL BY ROBERT ASAHINA GAY LIBERATION has turned into gay romanticization in Making Love and Personal Best Evidently the film industry now feels free to have...
Paid articleOn Screen (February 1982)
On Screen MISSING THE MOON BY ROBERT ASAHINA Shoot the Moon is an American movie that has an "adult" theme ivorce—at a time when most domestic productions are being correctly criticized for...
Paid articleOn Screen (January 1982)
On Screen SORTING OUT THE FILM GLUT BY ROBERT ASAHINA EVERY YEAR'S END there is a rush of new film releases, presumably to qualify them for the Oscar nominations Surely a strange ritual, since it...
Paid articleEleven Reels That Bored the World (December 1981)
On Screen ELEVEN REELS THAT BORED THE WORLD BY ROBERT ASAHINA For better or worse, you can t ignore Warren Beatty's latest film. Reds cost so much to produce (over $30 million), features so many...
Paid articleOn Screen (November 1981)
On Screen UNFORTUNATE FRENCH COINCIDENCES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Adultery and adolescence- where would French films be without them? Probably in much better shape, judging from the overfamiliarity and...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1981)
On Screen RELOON AND RUNNING by robert asahina ood writing, directing and acting combined to make Chariots of Fire the most impressive feature of the New York Film Festival-perhaps of the entire...
Paid articleOn Screen (September 1981)
On Screen PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW by robert asahina Prince of the City is what critics like to call an "important" film. It has a socially significant theme (police corruption) that is...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1981)
On Screen SUMMER FARE by robert asahina the prospect of ogling Julie Andrews' bare breasts thrills you, then go see S. O. B. But if, as I suspect, the possibility strikes you as more tiresome...
Paid articlecontrived Comic Books (June 1981)
On Screen CONTRIVED COMIC BOOKS BY ROBERT ASAHINA I would like to like Raiders of the Lost Ark. It has all the elements of the kind of adventure epic that always lures me to the movies (though...
Paid articleSuccessful Recycling (June 1981)
On Screen SUCCESSFUL RECYCLING BY ROBERT ASAHINA T here is a fine line between recycling cliches and reworking conventions. For instance, Alien, one of the big hits of 1979, was little more than...
Paid articleOn Screen (May 1981)
On Screen KNIGHTS ERRANT BY ROBERT ASAHINA FORMER members of the Kennedy White House are not the only ones still dreaming of Camelot Others must include John Boorman, who has just produced and...
Paid articlecliche Criminals (April 1981)
On Screen CLICHE CRIMINALS BY ROBERT ASAHINA THE WHORE WITH a heart of gold, the lovers who overcome class barriers to find true happiness, the elderly con man who pulls off a final big score,...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1981)
On Screen THE POSTMAN NEVER RINGS BY ROBERT ASAHINA T ¦Mi. he good news is that Jack Nicholson is back After squandering his talents on inconsequential parts in such forgettable films as The...
Paid articleOn Screen (February 1981)
On Screen COPS AND KILLERS by robert asahina A JL JL s long as David Susskind is around there will always be at least one heart that bleeds, one knee that jerks to the rhythm of predictable...
Paid articleOn Screen (February 1981)
On Screen MAD DOCTORS BY ROBERT ASAHINA A JL jL deranged doctor named Eddie Jessup desperately seeks God, discovers psychedelic mushrooms instead and turns into an ape. After running amok, he...
Paid articleA Sorry Season (January 1981)
On Screen A SORRY SEASON BY ROBERT ASAHINA One would scarcely from the recent slew of smarmy sex farces that we were living in the '80s, not the late '50s or early '60s. With their insufferably...
Paid articleOn Screen (December 1980)
On Screen SECRETARIES AND EARTHLINGS BY ROBERT ASAHINA A JL JLnyone who has worked in an office knows there is a rich potential for comedy in the politics, gossip, back-stabbing, careerism, and...
Paid articleOn Screen (December 1980)
On Screen OUT-ACTING THE SCRIPT by robert asahina M____ Bull is the most impressive American movie of the season—which is not to say it is the best. Just as its title character, the boxer Jake...
Paid articleOn Screen (November 1980)
On Screen MARKETING LEMONS BY ROBERTASAHINA JL* JL.ow a film is promoted and distributed can reveal a great deal. Take the horror movie campaigns. They are a plague on the airwaves, attacking...
Paid articleOn Film (November 1980)
On Screen FLASHES OF LIFE BY ROBERTASAHINA The 18th annual New York Film Festival, surely the dullest I have ever attended, was partly redeemed by the American premiere of Jean-Luc Godard's Every...
Paid articleOn Film (October 1980)
On Screen SEMINARS AND SUBURBS by robertasahina Stardust Memories Sandy Bates, a famous film director who is Woody Allen's latest screen persona, has a conversation with an alien who is just...
Paid articleMeaninigful Violence (October 1980)
On Screen MEANINGFUL VIOLENCE BY ROBERT ASAHINA HALFWAY through The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith there is a scene of remarkable power and impressive emotional intensity: a mass murder that erupts...
Paid articleVictorian Bestiary (September 1980)
On Screen VICTORIAN BESTIARY BY ROBERT ASAHINA According to the credits, The Elephant Man is "based upon the true life story of John Merrick . . . and not upon the Broadway play of the same title...
Paid articleOn Film (September 1980)
On Screen PAULINE AND ANDREW AND RENATA AND... BY ROBERT ASAHINA The question put to me most often during the past month or so was not "Which films do you recommend this summer?" It was "What did...
Paid articleManipulating the Moviegoer (August 1980)
On Screen MANIPULATING THE MOVIEGOER BY ROBERT ASAHINA with the possible exception of music, no artistic medium can match film for sheer visceral excitement. Consider the suspense and terror (to...
Paid articleOn Screen (July 1980)
On Screen SUMMER DOLDRUMS BY ROBERTASAHINA Remember the mysterious Bermuda Triangle, where all those boats and planes disappeared without apparent cause? Well, Peter Benchley has it all figured...
Paid articleOn Screen (June 1980)
On Screen STAR WARS'II: AN UNEQUAL SEQUEL by robert asahina case you hadn't heard, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca the Wook-ie, Darth Vader and all the other...
Paid articleOn Screen (May 1980)
On Screen A DIFFERENT DRUMMER by robert asahina V—... rector in search of a style. I have seen four of his 10 features, as different from one another in form as in content. Michael Kohlhaas...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1980)
On Screen LOSING A LOST GENERATION BY ROBERT ASAHINA EVERY GENERATION is in some fashion "lost," and each of its members considers himself an authority on why So it is not surprising that the...
Paid articleOn Screen (February 1980)
On Screen FANTASY LIVES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Paul Schrader is probably the only filmmaker left in Hollywood who thinks sex has to be dirty Although only in his 30s, he typically heads straight for...
Paid articleOn Screen (January 1980)
On Screen CRIMINAL PLEASURES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Last summer, without any advance publicity or press screenings, The Silent Partner opened for an extremely brief engagement in the Times Square...
Paid articleOn Screen (January 1980)
On Screen NO LAUGHING MATTERS BY ROBERT ASAHINA ing matter. What we find funny says a lot about what we take seriously—and that seems especially true in the case of directors, performers and...
Paid articleOn Screen (December 1979)
On Screen FALLING STARS BY ROBERT ASAHINA N Jt. ^ ear the beginning of Neil Simon's Chapter Two, Jennie Mac-Laine (Marsha Mason), a divorced actress, and George Schneider (James Caan), a widowed...
Paid articleHollywood on Fatherhood (December 1979)
On Screen HOLLYWOOD ON FATHERHOOD BY ROBERT ASAHINA At his best my father was never much more than a good weekend tennis player, and he was well past his peak by the time 1 was old enough to...
Paid articleRock Spirits (December 1979)
On Screen ROCK SPIRITS BY ROBERT ASAHINA For all of its cultural impact during the past two decades, rock music has not been well represented on film. To be sure, there have been numerous...
Paid articleLove Crazed (November 1979)
On Screen LOVE CRAZED by robert asahina 10, the joke is on George (Dudley Moore), a middle-aged bachelor whose libido triumphs over his good sense when he catches a fleeting glimpse of Jenny (Bo...
Paid articleNovels Into Films (November 1979)
On Screen NOVELS INTO FILMS BY ROBERT ASAHINA The Europeans, one of Henry James poor novels, has been made into an even poorer film by James Ivory and Ismael Merchant, the director-producer team...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1979)
On Screen LOVE TANGLES BY ROBERT ASAHINA r you can accept Jill Clayburgh as a famous American soprano named Caterina Silveri, you probably can accept everything else about Bernardo Bertolucci's...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1979)
On Screen SCRIPT FAILURES by robert asahina MATT of the million or so American GIs stationed in England during the massive troop buildup before D-Day. Jean (Lisa Eichhorn) is the daughter of a...
Paid articleOn Film (September 1979)
On Screen DOOMSDAY DEFERRED BY ROBERT ASAHINA FRANCIS Coppola's Apocalypse Now, one of the most eagerly awaited films of the decade, has at last exploded on the screen—like a barrage of blank...
Paid articleErotic Strains (August 1979)
On Screen EROTIC STRAINS BY ROBERT ASAHINA Now that Americans have been attracted to Laura Antonelli's physical charms in The Innocent and Wifemistress, distributors are attempting to cash in on...
Paid articleFamiliarity Breeds Respect (July 1979)
On Screen FAMILIARITY BREEDS RESPECT BY ROBERT ASAHINA M ..... cape their pasts Unlike stage actors, whose performances generally survive only in faded newspaper clippings and in audiences'...
Paid articleOn Film (July 1979)
On Screen SUMMER FUN AND GAMES by robert asahina P A?layers opens at Wimbledon's center court. Competing in the finals are Guillermo Vilas (played by himself) and an unknown upstart named Chris...
Paid articleOn Film (June 1979)
On Screen WOODY ALLEN'S ROTTEN APPLE BY ROBERT ASAHINA L,ke most gagmen who earn their living by making fun of people. Woody Allen can recognize the ridiculous in everyone but himself. In last...
Paid articleOn Film (May 1979)
On Screen YOUNG LOVE BY ROBERT ASAHINA M_, first shown in the United States at the 1977 New York Film Festival, languished for almost a year without an American distributor; when it finally...
Paid articleOn Screen (April 1979)
On Screen CINEMATIC DELUSIONS by robert asahina movies from good material {Hud, The Molly Maguires, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), and from bad material (Pete V Tiltie, Casey's Shadow). Just...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1979)
On Screen FAILED FANTASIES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Afew months ago, Playboy ran a spread on "older women" that revealed not merely bodies but the very spirit of that "men's" magazine. Most of the...
Paid articleMarried Lovers (February 1979)
On Screen MARRED LOVERS by robert asahina WHEN HE died in 1976, Lu-chino Visconti left behind a complete but unedited film adaptation of Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1892 novel, LTnnocente The...
Paid articleOn Film (January 1979)
On Screen SHORT CUTS by robert asahina T JL. he new film King of the Gypsies really should be called King of the Gypsy Musicians, in honor of its star attraction, Stephane Grappelli, the veteran...
Paid articleOn Screen (December 1978)
On Screen FILM FANTASIES by robert asahina Magic, the recent movie based on William Goldman's best-seller, Ben Greene (Burgess Meredith), a high-powered agent, gives a capsule definition of the...
Paid articleThe Decline of the Western (November 1978)
On Screen THE DECLINE OF THE WESTERN BY ROBERT ASAHINA Contrary to almost every expectation, the movie Western still survives, refusing to hang up its spurs. Unfortunately, I can offer little...
Paid articleFilmed Fictions (November 1978)
On Screen FILMED FICTIONS by robert asahina Anthony Burgess once contended that film adaptations of good novels are inevitably bad There is a grain of truth to his argument that the better a...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1978)
On Screen TEUTONIC TEDIUM BY ROBERT ASAHINA V JL. rom the early 1930s, until the mid-'60s, serious filmmaking in Germany was virtually nonexistent. Prior to the period of decline, though, German...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1978)
On Screen EMBARRASSING AMERICA BY ROBERT ASAHINA N jl ^ o one can dispute Robert Altman's mastery of his craft—his control of overlapping dialogue on multiple sound tracks, for instance, or his...
Paid articleOn Screen (September 1978)
On Screen MOVES ON THE RUN BY ROBERT ASAHINA T JL. he '60s developed in a curiously dialectical fashion. In less than a decade, integration gave way to separatism in the struggle for racial...
Paid articleGood Things in Small Packages (August 1978)
On Screen GOOD THINGS IN SMALL PACKAGES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Although it is widely believed that a critic can quickly rise to fame and fortune by attacking one movie after another, the evidence...
Paid articleGreasy Kid Stuff (July 1978)
On Screen GREASY KID STUFF BY ROBERT ASAHINA T .JL. ms year's crop of summer releases confirms my suspicion that the studios and distributors not only know from past experience that audiences...
Paid articleLove Stories (June 1978)
On Screen LOVE STORES BY ROBERT ASAHINA w T T hat's so different about A Different Story'' Not Alan Belkin's slick production, which has all the virtues of a carefully packaged made-for-TV movie...
Paid articleMIXED-UP MOVIES (May 1978)
On Screen MIXED-UP MOVIES BY ROBERT ASAHINA The latest film of Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea, perhaps best known in this country for his Memories of Underdevelopment (shown here in 1973),...
Paid articleKid stuff (April 1978)
On Screen KID STUFF BY ROBERT ASAHINA Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, a fictionalized account of an actual 12-year-old prostitute who plied her trade in New Orleans' notorious Storyville district...
Paid articleThe New Confusion (March 1978)
On Screen THE NEW CONFUSION BY ROBERT ASAHINA T *JL. here is an old tale about how comedians carry on at a gagmen's convention: Instead of trading jokes or even punchlines, they make one another...
Paid articleHow to put an Audience to Sleep (February 1978)
On Screen HOW TO PUT AN AUDIENCE TO SLEEP BY ROBERT ASAHINA M any thrillers depend for their effect on persuading audiences that even paranoids have real enemies Whether they are...
Paid articleA Career Gone Sour (January 1978)
On Screen A CAREER GONE SOUR BY ROBERT ASAHINA I recall seeing Harvey Keitel in Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1969), his screen debut and the first feature-length film written and directed by...
Paid articleSlipped Disco (January 1978)
On Screen SLIPPED DISCO BY ROBERT ASAHINA To Tony Manero, New York means Brooklyn, and Brooklyn means Bay Ridge; although Manhattan is a short subway ride away, it might as well be a different...
Paid articleVisit from A Nice planet (January 1978)
On Screen VISIT FROM A NICE PLANET by robert asahina After spending $18 million to make Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Columbia Pictures had to spend another $4 million on a promotional...
Paid articleLittle Women (December 1977)
On Screen LITTLE WOMEN BY ROBERT ASAHINA The big news this fall from Hollywood was the rediscovery of women—as serious subjects for movies, as artistically important stars, and as directors....
Paid articleA Weak Italian Trio (November 1977)
On Screen A WEAK ITALIAN TRIO BY ROBERT ASAHINA The late Pier Paolo Pasolini's Said, 120 Days of Sodom, set in the Fascist Republic of Salo in 1943, was banned in Italy and shown under...
Paid articleOld Hat, New Voices (November 1977)
On Screen OLD HAT, NEW VOICES BY ROBERT ASAHINA The 15th annual New York Film Festival that ended last month, hailed even before it opened as "the best in years," would perhaps have been better...
Paid articleLimited Endeavors (October 1977)
On Screen LIMITED ENDEAVORS BY ROBERT ASAHINA Migul Plnero's Short Eyes, winner of two Obies and the New York Drama Critics Award for Best American Play of 1973-74, was overpraised when it was...
Paid articleThree Kinds of Action (September 1977)
On Screen THREE KINDS OF ACTION BY ROBERT ASAHINA Watching a Dick Richards movie is a little like drowning in a giant bowl of slowly solidifying Jello. The director's fluid use of dazzling...
Paid articleShort Takes (August 1977)
On Screen SHORT TAKES BY ROBERT ASAHINA The theater where I saw Sorcerer was jammed with moviegoers presumably attracted by the title and by an ad campaign hinting that William Friedkin, who was...
Paid articleFlying High (July 1977)
On Screen FLYING HIGH by robert asahina None who has stood in line for three hours to see Star Wars has to be told it is doing "zowie business" (Variety's highest accolade). And if anyone else...
Paid articleDon't Play it Again, Woody (June 1977)
On Screen DONT PLAY IT AGAIN, WOODY BY ROBERT ASAHINA For months prior to its opening, Woody Allen's latest film was shrouded in mystery. When interviewed, cast members would apologize that they...
Paid articleAltman Lost in a Dream (May 1977)
ALTMAN LOST IN A DREAM BY ROBERT ASAHINA In Robert Altman's 3 Women, two hours pass before Janice Rule utters her first line: "I just had the most wonderful dream, but I can't seem to remember...
Paid articleOn Screen (April 1977)
On Screen LOST AT SEA by robert asahina By the late 1940s, when he wrote Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway was already the victim of his own shameless self-aggrandizement. Most of his...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1977)
On Screen HUNGUP ON THE PAST by robert asahina old movies never die-they simply turn up on the late show. This random recycling of cinematic trash can lead to a somewhat distorted image of the...
Paid articleCliches East and West (February 1977)
On Screen CLICHES EAST AND WEST BY ROBERT ASAHINA some movies are so shallow and schematic that it doesn't really pay to watch them any longer than the short time it takes to identify their...
Paid articleStillborn Again (January 1977)
On Screen STILLBORN AGAIN BY ROBERT ASAHINA To a film critic, December is the cruellest month. The distributors invariably unleash a flood of cinematic trash just before the close of the year,...
Paid articleOn Screen (December 1976)
On Screen BOREDOM IN BABYLON BY ROBERT ASAHINA F. SCOTT FITZGERALD came to the West Coast in 1937, enticed by "the feeling of new worlds to conquer." Since he was deeply in debt, a more tangible...
Paid articleOn Screen (November 1976)
On Screen THE PERFORMING SELF BY ROBERT ASAHINA JUDGING FROM two new movies, Hollywood seems to have rediscovered the proletariat. Rocky, directed by John Avildsen (Joe; Save the Tiger), is the...
Paid articleOn Screen (November 1976)
On Screen SALVAGINGA LACKLUSTER FESTIVAL BY ROBERT ASAHINA The 14th annual New York Film Festival, held last month, brought together 30 movies from 10 countries—France, Germany, Hong Kong,...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1976)
On Screen FAKING IT BY ROBERT ASAHINA In The Front, director Martin Ritt and screenwriter Walter Bernstein join forces to bring us a new film about the entertainment industry's blacklist during...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1971)
On Screen GANGSTERS FROM TRAGEDY TO FARCE BY ROBERT ASAHINA N Nearly 30 years ago, Robert Warshow described the American movie gangster as a "tragic hero." "Thrown into the crowd without...
Paid articleOn Screen (September 1976)
On Screen FAMILY PLOTS BY ROBERT ASAHINA The capacity of sophisticated American audiences to be enchanted by French movies is equaled only by the ability of Gallic filmmakers to churn...
Paid articleOn Screen (September 1976)
On Screen RUSTIC MAYHEM BY ROBERT ASAHINA For a film critic, at least, leaving New York City means entering a foreign country—the rest of the United States. In America's heartlands, even...
Paid articleOn Screen (July 1976)
On Screen APOCALYPTIC SEX BY ROBERT ASAHINA A American intellectuals have tended to be Francophiles in their cinematic tastes. And they frequently justify this affinity by claiming the French...
Paid articleOn Screen (May 1976)
On Screen THE SHADOW KNOWS BY ROBERT ASAHINA T HE movie version of All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best seller about how they "uncovered" the Watergate scandal for...
Paid articleOn Screen (April 1976)
On Screen PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST BY ROBERT ASAHINA In Salut l'Artiste, a 1973 film directed by Yves Robert that only recently opened in New York, middle-aged Marcello Mastroianni plays a...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1976)
On Screen SHOOTING THE CITY BY ROBERT ASAHINA A Artists and intellectuals have generally been skeptical of city life, preferring the pastoral to the industrial, the peace and simple certainties...
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AuthorAscoli, Mar
AuthorAshe, David I.
AuthorASHE, GEOFFREY
AuthorASHMORE, HARRY S.
AuthorASLUND, ANDERS
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