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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love motif is the pervasiveness of its reality among the film's otherwise diverse characters. The malaise afflicts the professionally fulfilled executive (Harvey Keitel) as deeply as his hopelessly unfulfilled housewife (Geraldine Chaplin), who fancies herself a modernday Camille, running around spouting melodrama and sipping Carroll's Southern Comfort between lines. It fails to discriminate between John Considine's hail-fellow-well-met furniture dealer and Carradine's petulant artiste. With one noteworthy exception, each of the ten central figures goes in search of a human connection, and each comes up empty-handed (if only in the figurative sense). Move...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Grown-Up Wasteland | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

...VIEW dreams as either tree farms or jungles. They can be logical, symmetrical and tame, set out in rows of trees that can always be distinguished from the untamed woods. Such neat dreams are a comfort to the tidy who enjoy right-angles and other intellectual exercises in geometry. But dreams are more often, and more interestingly, knottings of old and new--blends of what is real, what is probable, and what is only possible. Dreams are more an impression of reality than a photographic re-creation of it. They are made up of substance and shade, as are pictures...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Thickets of Enchantment and Illusion | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...their parents had, and as they grew older the family learned all the nasty details of the world that the wall of Irish Catholicism had always been able to keep out. Divorce and bankruptcy plagued old Tom Murray's grandchildren, and they no longer looked to the Church for comfort. Staring outward at a world of Wall Street maneuvering and St. Tropez vacations and Hollywood glamor, they abandoned the neat self-centered universe their parents had created for them. But in the process they abandoned that odd combination of unbounded energy, unshakeable vanity and unquestioning faith that had held...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A Lace Curtain-Call | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...primary goal of transportation development. The Soviet supersonic TU-144 is said to be hauling cargo between Moscow and Alma Ata, while nearly 15,000 passengers-admittedly, a small minority of transatlantic travelers-have already flown the Concorde to Europe. They are delighted by its speed, if not its comfort. For another thing, a ban on the Concorde would betray the American tradition of welcoming rugged but fair competition in the marketplace. The staggering development and operating costs of the Concorde may make the plane one of history's landmark commercial disasters, but if Paris and London are willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Putting Up with the Ugly Duckling | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...biggest potential box office hit of all times--Kong, the super-beast with a sappy heart--had only known how many bucks Dino DeLaurentis would try to turn on this idea. He would have turned green with envy at the profits, but he would have at least had the comfort of knowing that his version (the one he starred in) was better. Beyond a not-too-great over-all impression and a nostalgic haze, the only scenes that stick in this film are Fay Wray's screen test on the boat heading toward Kong's island and Kong's unveiling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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