Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days," explains John Erman, who directed three episodes. The sets are lavish and the money was intelligently spent. Interiors have accurate period furnishings and products. Such minor locations as a 1930s gas station, where young Alex is barred from the men's room, are as full of vivid details as the Dust Bowl sets in Bonnie and Clyde. At a cost of $1.8 million, ABC built the town of Henning, Tenn., where Haley's family settled at the end of Roots 1, and updated its streets and buildings for each decade. Though the African sequences and World...
...trite, preconceived moral and soon become inanimate pawns in a pseudointellectual shell game. Quin tet is designed to stimulate superficial cocktail party chatter rather than to provoke an audience's hearts or minds. Altman has toyed with this method once before, in the disastrous denouement of the otherwise vivid 3 Women, but he has never let such pedantry overwhelm an entire movie. The results seem not only silly but insincere. For all the soppy lip service Altman pays to life, his film never attempts to arise from the slumber of the dead...
...conscious thriller: he not only told the story of the robbery but also drew a savage, well-researched portrait of the economic inequities and moral hypocrisy of the mid-Victorian era. Unfortunately, he has not found a way to translate his Dickensian themes to film. Though his movie contains vivid re-creations (shot in Ireland) of London's stately mansions and grisly slums, Crichton photographs them as if he were a sightseer. His usual acerbic point of view - so apparent in the future-shock environments of his other movies - evaporates completely. What remains is a story that in itself...
...parachuting newsmen, language barriers and Iranians' fear of the police made it hard to develop sources. Even now, only one Western reporter in Tehran, Andrew Whitley of the BBC and the Financial Times, speaks Farsi. The U.S. embassy was hopeless as a source because of its self-isolation. Vivid coverage of the deteriorating situation by men like Jonathan C. Randal of the Washington Post and Nicholas Gage of the New York Times was usually hedged on the question of whether the Shah would survive. Gage in June reported on the opposition but added that "most analysts" thought the Shah...
...most perverse. This is Weir's fourth film, the first to be released in this country, and in it he shows a keen sense of how to create suspense, and an unnerving inability to deliver. His first talent makes Weir one of the more innovative filmmakers around, with a vivid imagination and the ability to infuse the most commonplace events with an eerie sense of the unknown. His second talent, however, consistently undoes all he sets up. As he tries to explain away the bizarre situations he creates, he falls back on just about every old cliche one can imagine...