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Another Oscar prospect, Lasse Hallstrom's hit Swedish comedy My Life as a Dog, teaches that pubescence is a messy uphill battle. And now two French films arrive to clinch the argument that in Europe, childhood is a daunting entrance exam for premature adulthood. Their plot is archetypal: a boy...
But most intriguing, in an era when women's hormonal reactions have been curiously represented on screen by male voyeurs like Fellini, Goddard and Malle, Smooth Talk is the product of female director Joyce Chopra, a 48-year-old documentary veteran making her feature-film debut.
Home video has also been a boon for some small films that did well with critics but badly at the box office. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, a sci- fi comedy that got sympathetic reviews but few theater customers, has gone platinum on cassette (100,000 units sold). Cross Creek...
With the triumph of the international style -- episodic and oblique, offering no easy meanings or solutions -- came the latest surge of immigrant directors and cinematographers. Some, like Forman, Soviet Filmmaker Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky) and the Cuban-bred camera magician Nestor Almendros, were sidestepping new tyrannies. Some, like Louis Malle...
EXPECTING. Candice Bergen, 39, placidly beautiful blond film actress (Starting Over, Rich and Famous), photojournalist and best-selling autobiographer (Knock Wood); and her husband Louis Malle, 52, French film director (Atlantic City, Alamo Bay): their first child (he has two children from a previous marriage); in October.