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...grimace or two during a screening of Star Wars, but there's no denying that the film ultimately wins you over. Lucas clearly does not suffer from the kind of overweening ambition in artistic vision that has proven the downfall of so many of his young contemporaries in American cinema. His mission is to entertain, and if such an end involves resorting to a few old standards of dialogue and theme, then so be it. Star Wars will neither pose nor answer any metaphysical questions that will keep the moviegoer scratching his head well after he has returned...
...have another new story to tell in our CINEMA section this week, the tale of a movie with such uncontrived innocence and sheer fantasy that it may start a trend in the film industry. We first heard about Star Wars from Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, who was in Los Angeles to search out SHOW BUSINESS stories. Getting word of a film that was to be given an unusual Sunday-morning preview in San Francisco, he flew north and was in the theater at 10 a.m., along with several hundred screaming children, a scattering of sci-fi film buffs and Director...
Avenue of the Americas directed by Jorge Reyes at Central Square Cinema tonight...
...Raining in Santiago directed by Helvio Soto at the Orson Welles Cinema...
Nashville. It's all been said before, but we'll repeat it for the umpteenth time: Nashville comes as close to breakthrough as a film can these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine...