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...BLADE RUNNER Directed by Ridley Scott Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Pleasures of Texture | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...atmosphere smothering the story lines of smart new science-fantasy movies? Is texture overwhelming the text? On the evidence of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner-and his previous thriller, the 1979 Alien-it would seem so. Says David Dryer, who helped supervise the special photographic effects of Blade Runner: "The environment in the film is almost a protagonist." He and other talented craftsmen are lavishing their imaginations on graphic design-on high-tech spaceships and déja vu futurism-and allowing the characters to wander through a labyrinthine narrative like lost dwarfs. Moviegoers seeking the smooth propulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Pleasures of Texture | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...throes of it at 42, won for the first time in two years last month with the steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years now Sam has been putting "sidesaddle." Literally and figuratively, he is the only great player who ever faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still Suited to a Tee | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...truth, he took photographs and worked from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade, or the reflection of a distant bush in a ripple of water. To get the muscles of horse and man right, he modeled them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Love with the Specific Philadelphia celebrates its realist genius, Thomas Eakins | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...powerful media blitz to herald their lavish if lead-souled musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton will sing and dance their way through The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Even so, Poltergeist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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