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...MOVIE IS LITTERED with more bicycle-theme humor, as well as Pee Wee's inimitable laughs, chuckles and snickers. His usual childishness flows easily through the film as well, as witnessed in one scene in which he gets into a "I know you are, but what am I" duel with another overgrown kid from the neighborhood...
...Chicago (a city that really symbolizes all metropolises) just before World War I, Jungle of Cities is about a duel between two men: Shlink (Nicholas Lawrence), the rich and heartless owner of a lumber mill and George Garga (Charles Puckette), the poor and lively library attendant. Spying the youthful fighting spirit in Garga at the play's beginning Shlink hands his business over to Garga, giving the poor agrarian boy a shot at material comfort and power. Garga nabs the offer while Shlink takes on the country boy's family obligations. The switch ultimately turns Garga's family relation...
...Spielberg has surprised us before: as an auteur prodigy, as the thrillmaster of Duel and Jaws, as the savvy director who could reinvent the movies' innocence. The man is only 37 now, and his toughest audience is himself. You needn't be a child to believe that this movie magician still has astonishments in store...
Hear, from the other end of the age scale, the evidence of David Lean. The director of Lawrence of Arabia and A Passage to India had seen Spielberg's 1971 TV movie Duel, released as a theatrical feature in Europe, and "immediately I knew that here was a very bright new director. Steven takes real pleasure in the sensuality of forming action scenes -- wonderful flowing movements. He has this extraordinary size of vision, a sweep that illuminates his films. But then Steven is the way the movies used to be. He just loves making films. He is entertaining his teenage...
...shrewd deflation of the potential objection that he is foisting his ideological prejudices on the unsuspecting reader. He makes no claim to the truth. He allows that as a critic he "can only state his belief persuasively," and impose "opinions by main force of eloquence." For this critical duel, he chooses not eternal verity but rather eloquence at forty paces. This is a wise choice, for Epstein wields a pen like the most powerful handgun in the world, and in the course of the book, blows several heads clean off. Listen to him describe John Leonard kill a party...