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...onto a portable screen, the film creaked and jerked with age, the actors' movements speeding unnaturally or grinding slowly. The sound track-it was the original one-was practically inaudible. Nor were there Chinese subtitles, a lack that did not daunt Chiang Ch'ing, who knew the screenplay perfectly from beginning to end. In fact, her running Chinese narration murmured into my ear was far clearer than the English dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...Screenplay by DENNE BART PETITCLERC

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big One Gets Away Again | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...Screenplay by NANCY DOWD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Icing the Puck | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...young couple fall to squabbling. In the second act they decide to take it to the divorce courts. In the third act they get back together again. No, the theatrical terminology is not a mistake. Herb Gardner has not so much adapted his Broadway comedy as retyped it in screenplay form. Despite a fair amount of New York City location shooting, the old act breaks are so apparent in the movie that it is as if a curtain had fallen to mark them off. Worse, the dialogue retains its aimed-at-the-balcony archness, a self-conscious cuteness that destroys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Petty Larceny | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Directed by MICHAEL WINNER Screenplay by MICHAEL WINNER and JEFFREY KONVITZ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hellish Huggermugger | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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