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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alan Alda appears as a failed concert pianist turned journalist. He is assigned to interview a master pianist (Curt Jurgens), who treats him with impenetrable superiority until he notices Alda's hands. "Hands like yours are one in a hundred thousand," the maestro exclaims, with blurred syntax, seizing Alda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spook the Piano Player | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

The consummate moment, in an almost perfectly controlled film, is the last sequence, the death of Balthazar. While being used to smuggle goods out of the town, he is deserted and accidentally shot. Slowly bleeding to death, he walks to the middle of a field, lays down and silently dies...

Author: By H. MICHAEL Levenson, | Title: Films Au Hasard Balthazar at the Orson Welles | 4/29/1971 | See Source »

A good-looking, brain-damaged illiterate named Chance has spent his youth tending a rich man's garden. His only contact with the outside world is TV. To Chance's weak mind, melodramas, news, commercials, sporting events and test patterns all carry equal weight and value. When the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Playing It by Eye | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

A wealthy jurist, Justin (George C. Scott) goes insane when his wife dies and fancies himself Sherlock Holmes, complete with Inverness coat, underslung pipe and austere vanity. His brother-in-law tries to have Justin put into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lunatic of Manhattan | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Charlotte, out of friendship for Wilbur, a pig who is to be butchered, promises that she will save him, and does. She does it by playing a trick on Mr. Zuckerman, who owns the farm where Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton the rat, the cows, and the geese live. She knows that...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Storytelling Charlotte's Web | 3/13/1971 | See Source »

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