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...time greats. Bergman's Passion of Anna the culmination of two decades of cinematic experiment, psychological examination and religious questioning. The only people who don't admire it are certain radical film critics who consider Bergman an "elitist." Sunday, it's back to staidsville, with the weepy Elvira Madigan and the better, if modest. Taste of Honey. (Call 566-0007 for times and further scheduling...
...networks are also persisting in the reverse alchemy that so often has turned movie gold into weekly dross. An hour-and-a-half round robin of mystery shows on NBC will include Richard Widmark in a series called Madigan, adapted from the 1968 detective film in which he starred. On CBS, MASH, the grisly 1970 comedy about a troupe of Army surgeons in Korea, is becoming a half-hour situation comedy starring Alan Alda...
...Elvira Madigan, March 23-24. Thur, at 8 p.m. only and Fri. at 8 and 10 p.m., Baker...
...film, with lots of jolts and a good eye for police procedure, Dirty Harry is a genre piece: it has a fine feeling not only for the danger of a cop's life but also for the monotony and frustrations. It is the best film about cops since Madigan, which, by no coincidence, was also directed by Don Siegel...
...memorably played by Thommy Berggren (the lover in Elvira Madigan), whose diffident yet forceful manner and ingratiating uncertainty with the English language make him the perfect incarnation of Hill. Kelvin Malave is also charming as The Fox, but the rest of the cast is distractingly nonprofessional. What is decisively wrong with Joe Hill is that it lacks historical complexity. The Molly Maguires, another film about labor's early struggles, was remorselessly real, almost like a dirge. Joe Hill, despite its occasional beauties, is more like a sentimental pop tune...