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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like its Catholic counterparts, the Protestant clergy has reneged on its duty. They have failed to rid their pulpit exhortations of blatant political intolerance. Extreme evangelical ministers--one example is the notorious Ian Paisley--have refused to lay aside the 17th century, and continue to thunder against the abominations of...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: Bleeding Ulster | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

With The Talisman, though, the fun of the plot becomes confused with the characters' politics. The coffin-nappers here are not simply crooks looking for a big haul, but political protesters, holding one national symbol for the ransom of another--but very different--symbol. The trouble is that just as...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: Exhuming the '60s | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

The problem was that he kept looking behind their transgressions, which were frequently ugly, vicious, mindless, to the poverty and brutality of their lives, their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: Exhuming the '60s | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

Looking for Mr. Goodbar is very much an American movie. Opening with a montage of black-and-white stills of Theresa, the film relies heavily on crisp quips to furnish some badly needed levity to the story, and Brooks is not averse to using quick cutting from scene to scene...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Unwrapping Mr. Goodbar | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Brooks altered the structure of Rossner's novel in only one instance--by placing the murder at the end of the movie instead of at the beginning--and the film on balance suffers as a result. The director undoubtedly made this change for a specific reason; by saving the murder...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Unwrapping Mr. Goodbar | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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