Word: kasdan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOOTNOTE: *Count 'em (in order of appearance): Andrew Marton, David Cronenberg, Richard Franklin, Landis, Colin Higgins, Daniel Petrie, Jonathan Kaufer, Mazursky, Paul Bartel, Don Siegel, Jim Henson, Jack Arnold, Amy Heckerling, Roger Vadim, Lawrence Kasdan, Jonathan Demme, Carl Gottlieb...
...Chill. Seven survivors of the '60s meet for a weekend to find a little warmth in the not so simple '80s. Aided by a resourceful cast, Writer-Director Lawrence Kasdan revives some old-fashioned movie virtues: grace, wit, subtlety, style...
...CHILL; Directed by Lawrence Kasdan Written by Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek...
There is another invisible presence in The Big Chill: that of Film Maker Lawrence Kasdan (Michigan '70). Kasdan came to a kind of shadow prominence writing scripts for George Lucas; if The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi juggle craftiness with kid-innocence, it is partly owing to Kasdan's easy wit and trove of B-movie lore. His debut as a writerdirector, Body Heat, updated the Double Indemnity plot with equal measures of fire and ice. The Big Chill marks another sure step forward for Kasdan. This is a movie...
...deeply affected a whole generation of children. What Walt Disney was to the children of the '30s, '40s and '50s, Lucas is to those of the late '70s and '80s. "George has been able to hook into some very basic universal images," says Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote the Jedi script with him. "Tying into these images isn't always conscious, and part of George's gift is his being able to use everything he has ever experienced or been exposed to. He is able to draw on the feelings he may have...