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DIRECTOR: ALAN J. PAKULA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punishing The Dream | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punishing The Dream | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Midst The Ferns | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, | Title: twice proven | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Repossess A Life: NORA EPHRON | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

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