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...budget Return of the Secaucus 7 and the low-budget Lianna, Sayles has traded up. His new film is being released by Paramount Pictures, was shot with a union crew, and is the first Sayles movie he has not edited on the kitchen table of his home in Hoboken, N.J. But Baby, It's You is not the traditional calling-card film of an ambitious young talent, shaping its dexterity to the restrictive demands of the horror or sci-fi genre. This movie, set in Trenton, N.J., in 1967 and loosely based on the teen-age experiences of Producer...
...heroine discovers resources of wit and self-confidence, the film does too. By the end it has turned a "problem drama" into a social comedy, full of cagey behavioral surprises and a lovely performance by Griffiths. Of all the new non-Hollywood films (this one was shot in Hoboken, N.J.), Lianna is the one most likely to reach and touch a wider audience. Even independent films must be dependent on an adventurous movie public...
...Stieglitz is as scholarly a production as anyone could wish, crammed with facts and trailing informative appendixes. It is also a loving and occasionally exasperated look at a contentious relative and the intimate circumstances that formed him. Stieglitz spent his life surrounded by family. When he was born, in Hoboken, N.J., he had already accumulated 32 first cousins. His parents, German immigrants grown wealthy in America, gave him five younger siblings, some of whom spent their lives wondering when Alfred would ever grow up. From his teens onward, when he was drawn to photography and modernism in painting and sculpture...
...King of Comedy Rupert not only wants to be Jerry Langford's pal, he wants the nation's leading talk-show host to give him his big break, let him do on the air the stand-up routine he has been polishing these many months in his Hoboken basement. To these ends he stalks Jerry not as an assassin, but as a nudge and a nerd. The two characters are wonderfully contrasted. Robert De Niro's Rupert has a cheerfully deranged imperviousness to traditional class distinctions and psychological boundary lines that makes you laugh even...
...garage door. The aluminum or vinyl sidings are supposed to help save on the heating bill or protect deteriorating facades. Picture windows give more light and the appearance of being up-to-date. "If something is old, you should get rid of it and go toward the future," a Hoboken, N.J., homeowner told Vergara. "Time has to go on; we had to modernize our house...