Word: klute
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laura's photographs are never worked into the story; the heroine's psychic powers have no bearing on the solution of the murder case. Laura Mars quickly devolves into a prosaic whodunit with a gyp of an ending. What could have been a classy thriller like Klute or Don't Look Now seems instead an endless episode of Charlie's Angels...
...they settled on was Alan Pakula, who had just come off another study in American political paranoia. The Parallax View, but whose work on Klute was what had really impressed both actors. They felt he had done an excellent job in building by visual means menace and tension into a script that had lacked those qualities. "If our project was to succeed, we'd need the same kind of tension," Hoffman remembers thinking. He adds: "Bob liked him because he felt he wouldn't jump on a liberal bandwagon. Redford saw the film as a detective story...
...Klute, Friday and Saturday, January...
Adventures of Shoriock Homes, 4, 6:40, 9:20, and Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50, tonight; The Long Goodbye, 4, 8 p.m., and Klute, 6, 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday; Harper, 4, 7:55, and Games, 6:10, 10:05, Sunday through Tuesday; I.F. Stone's Weekly Saturday and Sunday...
...program, regrew that four films--The Maltese Falcon. The Big Sleep, Chinatown and The Conversation--are unavailable. But the group, is so inclusive as it is that the only possible complaint is not what it excludes but what it includes. The recent films--Sleuth, The Long Goodbye , Klute. Harper and The Last of Sheila-- leave you wondering what kind of touch less than-stellar directors like Michael Curtiz had that today's better directors like Robert Altman, don't Sleuth is simply a too-cute stage play turned into a too-cute (and what's worse for a mystery...