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...Klute. In 1971, Jane Fonda won an Oscar for this film. She didn't work in Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan...
...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...