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...Indian writer's debut work, a frenetic treatise on caste prejudice, has had a mixed reception: At least one reviewer found it "pretty hard going" and the London Daily Telegraph described it as "emotive but meaningless verbiage, crammed with inappropriate metaphors." But what seemed to attract the most attention was the near-$2 million paid to its writer before it was even published...
Five years later, Malick followed his lavishly praised debut with the studio-financed Days of Heaven, an opaque allegory about migrant farm workers in Texas on the eve of World War I. It is so lyrically beautiful and narratively elliptical that its cast, which included Richard Gere and Sam Shepard, was upstaged by a field of wheat--which might sound like a knock on the film but is really a tribute to the quiet, meditative power of its best moments, of its preoccupation with the verities of the natural world. As one might assume from that description, Days of Heaven...
...here to stay--at least as far as this fall's movie crop is concerned. Close on the heels of the high-powered but uneven A Thousand Acres, and preceding The House of Yes and the much-anticipated The Ice Storm, comes the The Myth of Fingerprints, the debut feature of writer/director Bart Freundlich...
...crowded arena, indeed. Public Eye, which makes its debut this week, will battle it out for viewers and good stories with no fewer than five other TV newsmagazines that are already cramping network television's prime-time schedule. If, during his 15-year tenure on the Today show, Gumbel did not always display the intellectual heft or consistent coolheadedness of such newsmen as Tim Russert or Ted Koppel (the interviewer with whom he is too often favorably compared), he did manage to brand himself as television's most engagingly willful journalist. And beyond offering the intense presence of Gumbel, Public...
...this point that the movie loses all its tension and coherence The Locusts is beautifully filmed, especially in the scenes where the film goes for a western feel, and Kelley does deliver some striking images. But as in so many debut features, the script attempts to take on too much, sacrificing narrative focus for stylistic flair. What starts out as a younger, less bleak '50s version of After Dark My Sweet quickly turns into a meandering hodgepodge, alternating between generic buddy flick (obligatory scene in which cool guy teaches socially inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies...