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AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Small-town adolescence in 1962, perceptively rendered by George Lucas.
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 128 pages. Viking. $6.95. A predictable score of Grimm old favorites (samples: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Bridegroom) with color and black-and-white pictures from the 1909 Rackham edition. The original English translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas is...
The teenagers in George Lucas' Graffiti are a generation bursting out of its skin. In a small town and a '62 world there's no road for their rock and roll anxiety to follow: they jump in their drag racers and drive back and forth on the strip, letting off...
There's the same sense of confinement in Martin Scorsese's brilliant new Mean Streets--the stifling air, the discipline that allows the filmaker a paradoxical liberation. Living with the streetcorner Mafia in New York's Little Italy, Mean Streets' desperation is more brutal, more pulsing and more immediate. People...
MOST OF AMERICAN GRAFFITI, like Mean Streets, takes place at night. There's a closed specificity of tone, and Lucas wants to put his teenagers in perspective: the world is going on elsewhere. Even though there were no adults in the picture, you knew they were out there, and that...