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On Screen LOOKING FOR LAUGHS BY JAMES GARDNER T? invoke the Modernist model, a film comedy is a machine designed to amuse us: If itcandothis it has justified its right to exist. Occasionally...
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On Screen THE ANATOMY OF FEAR BY JAMES GARDNER NOT all films need to be good— at least in the sense of achieving, or even aspiring to achieve, something of esthetic consequence. Inartistic...
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On Screen BLOOD AND GUTS BY JAMES GARDNER It is no accident that Platoon and Death Before Dishonor have made their appearance at this stage in our history. Both display a willingness to...
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On Screen WOODYALLEN GROWS UP BY JAMES GARDNER If Radio Days is not Woody Allen's best film, it is surely a good one, and in the context of his career as a director it represents another step...
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On Screen MODESTY'S VITUES BY JAMES GARDNER Doris Dorree's new comedy, Men, is being hailed as a radical departure from what we have come to expect German cinema to be like in recent...
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Looking for Laughs
(April 1987)
