Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...film is set in New York--not the panoramic vistas or colorful neighborhood shots we've come to expect of movies set in the Big Apple, but in interior New York, the New York of hospitals, precinct houses, and apartments. Hutton flashes back and forth from one interior to the other, first by Barbara Delaney's (Faye Dunaway) bedside, then to the prowling killer, then to the stalking Delaney. But never does he make clear the connection between his three protagonists, whose movements parallel, counter, and shadow each other through the most critical moments of the film--though...
...murder mystery there is simply no suspense or doubt--it travels the straight and narrow path from beginning, middle, to end, never throwing a curve by presenting an alternate suspect, never even temporarily blocking Delaney's inexorable march to solution of the puzzle. The ingredients of the film are delicious on their own merits--it's only when so combined that the recipe fails to pan out, as neither Sinatra's nor Dunaway's performance can provide enough spark to carry the entire story by itself. In short, the first deadly sin was for a dogged director like Hutton...
Four panelists last night split evenly on whether the film "Deep Throat" should be allowed to play at Harvard or anywhere else...
...panelists said the film falls under the protection of the First Amendment, and the other two said the movie may be constitutionally censored...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law and a defense attorney in the Harvard "Deep Throat" case, said that although students should have voluntarily suppressed the film, "the more obnoxious a statement is, the more the First Amendment was designed to protect...