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...Soviet cinema is one of the most prolific in the world, but most of its product is designed for home consumption -and many of its best films, failing tests of ideological purity, remain unseen even in the U.S.S.R. Now a film about contemporary Soviet life has won an Academy Award and another, based on a 19th century novel, is winning kudos in its American debut in New York. One is bright, one brooding; together, they exemplify official Soviet film making at its best...
...Soviets cannot make a decent adaptation of one of their own literary treasures, who can? And it is a delight, faithful to the soulfully comic spirit of Goncharov's novel-about a man who would rather sleep than fight the modern world-yet gracefully free-spirited in using cinema shorthand to keep the story moving...
...German cinema has given the world a cast of characters as varied as the diabolical Dr. Caligari and the sultry chanteuse of Blue Angel. But none was ever quite like the film heroine that has recently drawn West German audiences to the movies in droves-Christiane F.: We Children from the Zoo Station. The protagonist starts off as a teen-age prostitute and drug addict who haunts the squalid fringes of West Germany's affluent society. On the screen, when she is not listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin...
...would be any different?" The title unfolds: "FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH--PART TWO." I felt like I was 20,000 leagues beneath the Charles. Not only does this movie have the gall to acclaim itself as a total rehash of an awful, misogynist film that was the epitome of cinema merde, but the trailer shows us every murder in the new version--in order--and then asks us to come see it anyway. To wit: A girl stands in front of a window. A large ice pick comes in from off screen, she screams, and--cut. The announcer booms, "THIRTEEN...
...oomph worked well enough for the brothers to open two other movie bars in Florida and sell the franchises for two Cinema 'n' Drafthouses in Jacksonville and Atlanta. They have contracted to open five more franchises in the next year. The movies, changed each week, are usually comedies or action fare with stars like Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Burt Reynolds...