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STRAIGHT TIME Directed by Ulu Grosbard Screenplay by Alvin Sargent, Edward Bunker and Jeffrey Boam...
...innovative director probably could have reshaped this material; in the hands of Jean-Luc Godard or Terence Malick, Straight Time might even have been a fascinating variation on Breathless or Badlands. Ulu Grosbard, who did direct, is but a journeyman film maker. He substitutes slow pacing and dour photography for style. Only the action scenes get him moving: when Max and his cronies stage their robberies, Straight Time actually manages to work up a little sweat...
Under Ulu Grosbard's taut direction, Kenneth McMillan anchors the play as a bluff but bewildered shop owner. John Savage captures the confusion of the wild-eyed junkie who responds to the shop owner's paternal warmth...
...analyses Bob Rafelson's style, pulling out on route some of his favorite baseball cards--Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni, Truffaut, Godard, Hitchcock, Ford, Welles, Walsh, Nichols, Mazursky, Grosbard--all in one short and easy review. Past the intro, there's no more social consciousness. It is pretty nervy for Sarris to condemn "disconnection with the Other" midway through as a misinterpretation of auteurism's roots. At that point he's already lost three quarters of his non-acolyte audience...
Like many rock concerts, Harry Kellerman has about 15 minutes of entertainment and hours to kill. Accordingly, Director Ulu Grosbard shot endless footage of the sidewalks of New York City, a view of the city from the air, and Georgie and his shrink schussing downhill in the snow. The pictorial trickery cannot disguise the vapidity of the film...