Word: pakula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by ALAN J. PAKULA...
LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING Directed by ALAN J. PAKULA Screenplay by ALVIN SARGENT
...submission. His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed. He begins to act a good deal more assured, but like the film...
Klute. Jane Fonda's Manhattan whore is one of the best female characters in American film, and one of the few honest modern ones. Don Sutherland's hick detective, a less difficult role, is just as well realized. The suspense story isn't much, but Alan J. Pakula's direction successfuly ignores it for long stretches. With Summer of 42, a well-filmed fable of initiation marred by a mawkish script. GARDEN CINEMA. Klute: 8 day, weekend matinee 4. Summer: 6:15 and 10 daily, weekend matinee...
Klute. Jane Fonda's Manhattan whore is one of the best female characters in American film, and one of the few honest modern ones. Don Sutherland's hick detective, a less difficult role, is just as well realized. The suspense story isn't much, but Alan J. Pakula's direction successfuly ignores it for long stretches...