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The premise is familiar enough: A respected director loses all credibility after the failure of his latest multi-million dollar flick. And the film moves quickly at the beginning. After a brief segment from Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) epic disaster, the camera turns to Felix himself. Staring at Variety...
Chief among those ignoring the mutt's wails is Producer Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan), who, when he is not staring sightlessly at the trade papers reporting that his latest film, Night Wind, has set a new record for low grosses and bad reviews, is trying to kill himself. He...
Heaven's Gate is not "an unqualified disaster." Cimino has discovered that cameras move, so, unlike The Deer Hunter, his new movie isn't almost entirely composed of long and medium shots with the camera staring. There are some exhilirating, sweeping pans of the vast homestead and interesting tracking through...
At times-Bundy displays a solid understanding of Behan's work, but, constantly, he falters. He interweaves the different themes and sub-plots with careful grace, but a bit too meticulously. Bundy's self-conscious style gives The Hostage an inappropriate solemnity. The frequent wisecracking of Behan's characters-their...
They are not, in any sense, portraits of Beautiful People. Every wrinkle, bulge and sag in their flesh is colossally magnified: a face 9 ft. high is no longer a face but a wall of imperfections that mock the convention of "good looks." The face is always seen head on...