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Director Monte Hellman has taken this kind of chopped and channeled mythology and turned it into an American pop epic called Two-Lane Blacktop. The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness. There are extended pauses and dialogue exchanges full of deliberate paradox. Few film makers have dealt so well or so subtly with the American landscape. Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches-the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer-have...
...House film series is almost shamefully apt, for that is pretty much the position of women in the movie industry: women are in films, but rarely on the other side of the camera. A few women have had productive careers as screenwriters-Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Jane Murfin, Lillian Hellman, and most recently, Adrian Joyce ( Five Easy Pieces ). But even before Pauline Kael began talking about it, it was easy to see that Hollywood treated writers (male and female) as little more than unfortunate necessities. Often, the most powerful women in the movie business are those actresses who married studio...
...laborers in other works. "The Cradle Will Rock" (1936), set in Steeltown, U. S. A., attacks the bourgeois who sell out to big business. In "No for an Answer" (1940) he pleads the case of summer workers facing seasonal unemployment. And his opera "Regina" (1949) is based on Lillian Hellman's anti-capitalist play "The Little Foxes...
Shrugs and Overstatement. There are two dangers in confronting the present conservation crisis. One "is to overstate the damage to the environment. The other is to fall into the kind of shoulder-shrugging despair best illustrated by Writer Lillian Hellman when her neighbors sought her help in protecting the island of Martha's Vineyard from a jet airstrip. "Everywhere else has been ruined," she replied. "Why should we be different?" Boyle avoids both pitfalls. Hand-wringing fishermen often exaggerate the ruination of the Hudson by pointing to a lack of salmon. By consulting records and fishery experts, Boyle...
...part of the Harvard population regardless of their dramatic interest-for the troupe has pioneered a new mode of theatrical presentation-while those more closely attuned to the proscenium stage may enjoy the opportunity to hear playwrights Charles Gordone (No Place To Be Somebody), Arthur Kopit (Indians), and Lillian Hellman (Toys in the Attic), or Village Voice Drama Critic John Lahr discuss their work...