Word: allen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately the film's screenplay could have used a little Chekhov-or Gorki-as well. Too many lines are overly explicit ("We're like children forgotten in the nursery of a house on fire"); others recall the parody of Woody Allen's Love and Death ("You are choked by boredom"). Mikhalkov could also use some of Renoir's toughness of mind and poetic genius. The Rules of the Game dared to dissect contemporary France; A Slave of Love is essentially a safe nostalgia piece. Where Renoir merged theme, style and narrative into a seamless whole, Mikhalkov...
...just finished sucking on a lemon. Jessie, proud of his daughter, but more comfortable with the idea that a woman's place is back in the house trailer cooking up corn biscuits, smiles and takes another chomp on his cigar. Meanwhile. Joe's son Allen, 4, scampers around the trailer on his toy John Deere tractor...
Directed by Invin Allen...
...onslaught. Now it is not unreasonable to suppose that a tense little movie could be made out of the struggle between the bugs and the military-scientific complex charged with exterminating them. Unfortunately, no one seems to want to make tense little movies any more, least of all Irwin Allen, who has prospered with the likes of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, in which potentially amusing premises were so heavily encrusted with "human interest" subplots that they sank of their own weight...
Although it could be many months before the SEC's charges come to trial, Wilmot's days as a highflyer in international aviation seem over. Last month Grumman sold its Gulfstream-manufacturing subsidiary to American Jet Industries, of Van Nuys, Calif. Its president, Allen Paulson, says flatly that Page will not be asked to help sell any more Gulfstreams...