Word: masterworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters as inarticulate (and, through the wonders of Dolby Stereo, often as unintelligible) as those of The Deer Hunter, but without the Viet Nam film's claim of political significance. With its repetitions and ellipses, Heaven's Gate resembles random sequences from some lost eight-hour masterwork. As of this week, though, it is something sadder: a four-hour fiasco...
...Evenings, Mikhalkov tells the story of a middle-aged man and woman trying to pick up the threads of a romance they were forced to sever during World War II. And in his latest film, Oblomov, he tackles the elusive, lethargic hero of Ivan Goncharov's 19th century masterwork...