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DIRECTOR: ALAN J. PAKULA...
...relentless portentousness of Consenting Adults. Kay's seduction of Richard verges on a Mae West parody, while his response to it has something of Stan Laurel about it. And once a capital crime occurs, the sheer complication of its planning and its solution is too implausible. Alan J. Pakula's direction consists largely of pullbacks and pans that never reveal anything interesting -- except, perhaps, his own misguided ambitions for a film whose one real hope was briskness and irony, a sense that this subject is fully ripened for satire...
This little shocker is just the beginning of a long, ambitious first novel by a young Mississippian. The publisher has ordered up a 75,000-copy first printing. Director Alan Pakula (Klute, All the President's Men) has bought it for the movies. What Donna Tartt has attempted -- and largely brought off -- is a challenging combination of a mystery (will they get caught or won't they?), an exploration of evil, both banal and bizarre, and a generous slice of the world as seen by the author, a brainy graduate of Bennington who has mastered Greek and English literature...
...dramatic narrative of Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor in a large, Midwestern city who is accused of murdering his colleague and former mistress, became the subject of the blockbuster movie directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford...
Nora began her directing career as she did her reporting days at the Post, tapping her circle of influential friends. She interviewed successful directors for practical advice -- Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula, Rob Reiner. Reiner, with whom Nora had collaborated on When Harry Met Sally , wrote a detailed director's commentary on the shooting script of This Is My Life and gave advice on the editing. "Everyone told me how fatiguing it would be, how I should get into shape before shooting started," says Ephron. "They didn't tell me how great it would be. I couldn't wait...