Pondering a Family Mystery The Bobby-Soxer By Hortense Calisher Doubleday. 281 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Marcia Cavell The themes of Hortense Calisher's latest novel will be familiar to readers...
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On Screen LOOKING BACK BY MARCIA CAVELL Michel Drach's Les Ves Violons du Bal is a near-perfect movie on a small scale, flawed only by the cuteness of its film-within-a-film device. It begins in...
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On Screen GODFATHERS AND SONS BY MARCIA CAVELL Godfather, Part II, director Francis Ford Coppola has pulled off a considerable feat. Assisted by Mario Puzo, he has turned the leftovers from...
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On Screen REMEMBERING THE NIGHTMARE BY MARCIA CAVELL Movies permit us to indulge our visual curiosity to a degree that would make us afraid or ashamed in ordinary life As adults we usually...
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On Screen BERGMAN'S MISGIVINGS FELLINI'S MEMORIES BY MARCIA CAVELL Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, which originally appeared on Scandinavian television in 1973 as six 50-minute...
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On Screen ON THE ROAD AND ON THE MAKE by marcia cavell w Y V e know director Paul Mazursky for his fascination with Los Angeles, freaky lifestyles, post-mantal sex, and individuals just old...
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SOFT SHOES AND HARD HEARTS BY MARCIA CAVELL There are two terrific movies around right now. Chinatown, set in the '30s and self-consciously fashioned after the classic private-eye features of the...
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On Screen WATCHING WOMEN WATCHERS BY MARCIA CAVELL Critics often take the fact that a good book does not make a good movie as a necessary truth about the medium. I don't know if a good movie...
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