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...career with MIT literature and film professor Paul Thorburn. Prior to the discussion, the Brattle will screen Willis’ favorite film from his career. What might it be? All the President’s Men? Annie Hall? Nope, it’ll be a new 35mm print of Klute, a forgotten 1971 Jane Fonda-Donald Sutherland crime thriller that won Fonda an Oscar for her role as a hooker. Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $12, $10 members. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle...
...weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle. He's already a real director. If he ever tires of his name above the title, he could build a cottage industry as the cinema's handsomest auteur...
...Fondas, Jane for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978) and Henry for On Golden Pond...
...character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit. But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford's work--no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does--and director Alan J. Pakula's analogous strengths. Pakula (Klute, Presumed Innocent) develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, The Devil's Own suggests the skill may be only mislaid. Of course, it helps when you hire grownups...
Pakula, who has proved his ability to turn paranoid suspicions into scary reality (Klute, All the President's Men), gives his movie the dark glow we have come to expect from this genre. But we don't go to movies like this in search of stylish apercus. We go to see innocents like ourselves getting swept up by irresistible tides of terror. And to have the pants scared off us. That doesn't happen in The Pelican Brief. An airplane read has been turned into nothing more compelling than an airplane...