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Hollywood must make movies that speak to the present, not concepts or carbon copies but reverberant stories and demanding images. Says Robert Benton, whose Kramer vs. Kramer was the top-grossing film of 1979: "The most interesting development of the past year was the success of the old-fashioned thriller...
Answer: If you guessed National Lampoon's Animal House, you hit the jackpot. But you get the same prize--an invitation to read to the bottom of this story --if you also guessed Police Academy, Hot Moves, Hardbodies, Joysticks, Weekend Pass, Private Lessons, Zapped!, My Tutor, Beach Girls, Summer Camp...
If the lavish Amadeus is not exactly Cinderella, it is an odd choice for so much Hollywood glory. It is long (2 hr. 38 min.), without the epic quality that often marks lengthy pictures. Its theme, moreover, is rarefied: God's inexplicable gift of genius to a lout (Mozart, as...
"Ghostbusters," last summer's blockbuster which is the all-time top-grossing comedy, "was a riot and I knew it," Murray said. "It was just like saving Ethiopia."
What's the matter with kids' movies today? There are too damn many of them, that's what, and they are all about the same damn thing. Since 1978, when National Lampoon's Animal House revived the teenpix genre, rites of passage have become Kabuki rituals: popping zits, snapping towels...