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...Screenplay by INGMAR BERGMAN...
Directed by SAM PECKINPAH Screenplay by WALTER HILL...
...National Theatre staging of Hedda Gabler. Here, as in that production, the dominant color motif is red of a dark, smothering, somehow vaguely menacing hue. "Don't ask me why it must be so because I don't know," Bergman writes in the Cries and Whispers screenplay. Perhaps it is because "ever since my childhood I have pictured the inside of the soul as a moist membrane in shades of red." Both Hedda Gabler and this film share, too, a careful choreography of movement, with the actresses gliding in almost glacial grace across the frame. Yet as ever...
Sleuth. The most overrated film thus far this year. Joseph L. Manckiewicz directs with the tired hands of an old whore, and the screenplay itself is not really that clever-an indictment of upper-class gamesmanship which considers itself righteous by having hairdresser Michael Caine expose detective story writer Laurence Olivier as a fake Labored...
...Screenplay by NEIL SIMON