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...classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill out thanks to Benton's cleverly constructed script and his skillful direction. Bit by bit, he manages to do about as fine a job of taking the pre-War detective format and creatively putting it in the 1970s as Robert Altman did in The Long Goodbye...
BENTON'S OTHER WAY of accentuating this juxtaposition of eras is through the unlikely combo itself: the old timer and the space cadet. This device is trickier, though; Altman and a lot of American film directors have tried the modern gangster idea and seen it work, while at first glance the oddball team device looks to be striclty situation comedy. Something That Girl would have larked into, or just the thing for The Sandy Duncan Show (a sitcom that keeled over in its break from the starting gate). And indeed, stereotyped situation comedy stuff...
...coming into their own again. Shooting will soon begin on Judith Rossner's bestseller Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks and starring Tuesday Weld and Diane Keaton. Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall and Janice Rule form the trio in Three Women, a film that Director Robert Altman says, somewhat obscurely, is based on one of his dreams. Equally mysterious, although for different reasons, is Demon Seed. In that science-fiction thriller Julie Christie is impregnated-don't ask how-by a computer...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman...
...Chinatown. This is the only film made in American in recent years which compares in insight and emotional power to the Hollywood films of the 30s and 40s. (I include the work of Robert Altman). Polanski turns the traditional detective film on its head. Chinatown is really about the education of Jack Nicholson, who as the film develops learns more and more about the structure of power in Los Angeles, but discovers that the more he knows the less he can help Faye Dunaway. A very pessimistic perspective, but very effective...