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Regarding seven immunized witnesses and several slandered bystanders, exhibits from a cocaine trial that seems to have been conducted on an iceberg tip in Pittsburgh, Ueberroth has been straining under what he termed a "great demand to do something Landis-like." Maybe to reassure the players of his sympathy, maybe...
The themes of flight and pursuit, of innocence shading into culpability, are Hitchcockian. But John Landis' film is not a genre genuflection; it is a thoroughly modern, satanically entertaining night flight into the Zeitgeist city of the 1980s. This Los Angeles is a kingdom of chic sleaze, where every black...
On first viewing, Landis films like Animal House and Trading Places--shaggy, canny, missing broad targets and then dancing on pinheads--seem not nearly as good as they should be. Second time around, they look better than they have any right to. No master of mise-en-scene, no Mr...
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.
The only baseball commissioner with an impossible act to follow was Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, who succeeded Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1945.