Word: rafelson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from all social strata lurking in the cobwebbed corners of a modern woman's life, gets neither the zest nor the sick thrill it could use. This is an enervated, despondent entertainment -- especially if you start meditating on what's befallen Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman and director Bob Rafelson since 1970, when the trio made Five Easy Pieces and the cinema world seemed full of promise and not dead ends...
MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON Directed by Bob Rafelson...
Screenplay by William Harrison and Bob Rafelson...
Though Bob Rafelson's film has epic scope, its attitudes are anything but those of the conventional epic. Yet somehow it conveys, as few movies ever have, the miserable realities that underlay the 19th century's heroic age of exploration. Since it bravely takes up a subject remote from the interests of most of the modern audience, the film itself has about it the air of a grand, ferocious folly. Precisely because it is a high-risk venture in a low-risk movie climate, it deserves one's startled gratitude...