Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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QUINCY HOUSE DINING HALL, Grapes of Wrath, (at 8) with Henry Fonda, John Carradine, All About Eve, (at 10) with Bette Davis...
Back at the pre-trial press conference, Kunstler was still speaking, and rumors were floating around the room that Jane Fonda or Marlon Brando was going to appear that night at an AIM rally, when someone told me to pick up Carol Means...
...sounds at first Like pure youthful egotism: don't trust anyone over 25 to save the world. But Director Fonda and Scriptwriter Matthiesen are getting at something different. For all the kids' youth, energy and commitment, they do not do much better than their elders...
Besides collaborating with Dennis Hopper on Easy Rider, Peter Fonda has directed one previous movie, a fine, elegiac western called The Hired Hand (1971). Like that earlier effort, Idaho Transfer has a grave, lovely feeling for the contours of the countryside. There is also, as in The Hired Hand, a simple, quite ravishing musical score by Bruce Langhorne, which mixes acoustic instrumentation with electronic effects. The scores of these two films alone should establish Langhorne as one of the best young pop musicians in the country. He is, hands down, one of the best film composers...
Idaho Transfer could have been shrill and preachy in its ecological warning, but Fonda keeps it in check. The movie has the spareness of a classroom documentary, which lends it a nice tone of satire but also often undoes it. The cast, with one exception, is nonprofessional, and their uncertainty and clumsiness with lines not only underplays the drama of the script, but sometimes undercuts it altogether. Vacant-eyed, the actors mumble the dialogue as if reading the instructions on a medicine bottle...