Word: egleson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PIXOTE Directed by Hector Babenco Screenplay by Hector Babenco and Jorge Duran OVER THE EDGE Directed by Jonathan Kaplan Screenplay by Charlie Haas and Tim Hunter THE DARK END OF THE STREET Directed and Written by Jan Egleson...
...small theaters around the country. And a group of ornery independents have organized to show their films in a Manhattan art house. Viewers who might otherwise catch Caveman will discover 17 fiction features and documentaries, including John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's painterly Northern Lights (Crosby) and Jan Egleson's vivid The Dark of the Street (Boston), featuring a curly-haired charmer named Laura Harrington. Good, bad or just different, regional cinema may be here to stay...
...EGLESON, who wrote and directed Dark End on location in Cambridge with a cast of unknowns, has made a touching film without a moral about a subject that long ago transcended morality. He presents a time when teenagers realize that sometimes there is nothing to ask, nothing to do and no place to run away. The cast's inexperience makes it even more natural and simple to be inarticulate about things for which there are no words and which glamorous, eloquent action would romanticize. Laura Harrington, as Donna, is a beautiful, unpolished young woman who makes the complex emotions...
...powerlessness which people face, when the explanations for death are too easily found in race and when this history of racial prejudice becomes so much a part of us--it becomes the easiest defense we can muster. Sadly, the cliches too often come true, especially in Boston and Cambridge. Egleson makes no pretense of solving the dilemma for this neighborhood. There were no guard railings on the roof the night the boy fell; there are none to restrict people's behavior when it comes to race. It remains all too easy to fall over the edge--into the rhetoric...