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...city contains a variety of neighborhoods almost cloned from the originals: Chinatown, just below Manhattan's Lower East Side, with its more than 200 often excellent coffee shops and restaurants, its shops selling salted fish, smoked duck and preserved eggs. Or Little Italy, next door, where one can sit at a side walk café with a cappuccino and time-warp 50 years back to some Neapolitan atmosphere. Ninth Avenue from 38th to 53rd streets is a rapid collage of Italian, Greek, Philippine and African shops and stalls. Yorkville around 86th Street and Third Avenue is somewhat homogenized...
Sprague's overload of sharpshooting energy has led him to accept a varied collection of public interest cases. He has represented a group of local Chinese protesting the redevelopment of Philadelphia's Chinatown, offered to oversee a probe requested by local Puerto Rican groups concerned over a badly prosecuted murder and arson case, and is handling a lawsuit by Developer Sam Lefrak and the New York City Housing Authority that attempts to prove worldwide price fixing by five major oil companies. Other Sprague cases include a local data research corporation's antitrust suit against IBM, and defense...
...pretty silly, but, against the odds. Sparkle is often pleasant and even funny. This is no small achievement, given the generally barbaric level of the script. Sam O'Steen, a talented film editor (Catch-22, Chinatown) directing his first feature, has photographed much of the film in close, with the light kept low. The intimate style is effective, and it helps somewhat to disguise budgetary limitations. Sparkle was made for lunch money, and it shows. What shows more prominently, though, is the distinctive charm of Actors Thomas, Cara and McKee, and the promise of a new director who managed...
...Chinatown. They'll make a mint showing this, and they deserve to. What seemed to be another cashing-in on the spate of the thirties films that did so well at the box office, turned out to be much more complex and intelligent than anyone expected. Beneath the precise atmospheric touches (the right clothes, the right music, the right slang, etc.) you find an apt and sinister diagram of where the tentacles of power lead. It's a lovely new interpretation of the American pioneerism: John Huston's Noah Cross serves as one of the more indelible and paradigmatic characters...
...Chinatown Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10:30; Films from China, Sunday...