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...WILD BUNCH. The script is only another chapter in the legend of the West. But Sam Peckinpah's direction places him with the best of the newer generation of American film makers and makes the film a raucous and extremely violent classic of its genre...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. A Texas drifter and a Bronx loner provide the nucleus of an unusually moving picture about love among the loveless. John Schlesinger (Darling) directs Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman with a restraint that is often missing from the script...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Anna Karina (an usherette) is the taunting, haunting object pursued by Nicol Williamson (a wealthy blind Englishman). The script was carefully adapted from Nabokov's exploration of jet-black humor...
...movie I make will have to win at Cannes." But his appearances in films belied the boast. The mad stare, the simian stance could have been reproduced, everyone thought, by a dozen actors. Everyone but Peter Fonda. He persuaded Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) to collaborate on the Easy Rider script, and talked American International Pictures, creators of the beach and motorcycle placebos, into producing a film starring nobodies and directed by a weirdo. When A.I.P. refused to put up enough money to launch the project, Fonda made the ultimate rich boy's sacrifice: he took a loan...
...remember anything better. It puts it all together; a simple, but visually pleasing and extraordinary functional set that, combined with Arnott's precise blocking, makes optimum use not only of the arena but of the entire theatre; a truly superior use of lighting; ingenious tinkering with the script; and acting that ranges from good to superb...