Word: billye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although based on the outlines of a true story, "Midnight Express" is more akin to fantasy, albert a nightmarish one. How else can one explain the wholesale brutality of the Turkish characters, the unreal prison conditions, and the imaginary arbitrariness of the Turkish judicial system, not to mention Billy Hayes...
The movie, therefore, is not just an innocent and harmless depiction of Billy Hayes' transformation "into an Everyman-type hero coping with the erosion of his identity in a nether world of sadism, greed, and madness." As abstract as Mr. Contrer as makes it sound, this world is one where...
It was not long ago that Turkey had to bear the brunt of American pressure because of its poppy cultivation. Turkey then was an easy scapegoat for the concerned parents of American drug addicts and the U.S. administration. It is certainly ironic that "Midnight Express" puts the country once again...
But all this is lost in the gibberish of the Turkish prosecutor, and, for lack of subtitles, Mr. Contreras may be excused for not quite grasping the motives of the Turkish government in sentencing Billy Hayes to life imprisonment. Nonetheless, I find it inadmissible to acclaim a movie which is...
THE SPUNK of the quick parting shot, "52nd Street," confirms that Billy Joel is still full of life; but it is an unsatisfying end to an unsatisfying album. Joel said he wouldn't stagnate with the sound of The Stranger, and this latest album certainly represents a departure. But there...