Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Karsten Prager, John F. Stacks...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Karsten Prager, John F. Stacks...
...CHARLIE MOPIC Directed and Written by Patrick Duncan...
This mostly unseen star is played by Byron Thames, but special citations must go to Richard Brooks, Nicholas Cascone and Glenn Morshower, as his most sharply delineated subjects. It is, however, first-time director Duncan's raw technique that jolts, transforms and grants powerful immediacy to basically banal material. In these bland days, more famous directors, operating on bigger budgets, are not managing to do as well...