Word: amiel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed by Jon Amiel...
...Amiel has catered this sort of phantasmagoric feast before; he directed Dennis Potter's magnificent TV serial The Singing Detective. Once or twice % Amiel is hobbled by the conflicting demands of a sprawling vision and a thin wallet. The movie starts out of breath and keeps on running. But that's O.K.; in fact, for a couple of hours it's criminally enjoyable. Who would have thought that you could transport three roiling generations of Italians and get Moonstruck in Britain...
...serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...
Foreman has also invited several prominent conservative writers and political figures to speak at Harvard, including Barbara Amiel, a leading Canadian journalist, John LeBoutillier '76, author of "Harvard Hates America," and a yet-to-be-named supply-side economist...