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But the characters were barely in place when the familiar scenario began to unravel. Instead of retiring quietly, Prem, also a general, and the army's cornmander in chief, escaped to the garrison city of Korat, 150 miles northeast of Bang kok. There, with the backing of the immensely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Fast Fizzle for Coup No. 14 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Rafelson clearly knows the depth of Nicholson's talent because the camera is constantly moving in for those tiny flashes of expression that probably would have been lost with another director. This is one of the elements that makes the movie feel so masterful--Rafelson wants you to notice the...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

In the depiction of Robert, the radical lecturer in chukka boots, we see Gordon's severest weakness: her drawing of male figures. All her men are foils for her heroines. Incomplete and inconsequential, they serve for Felicitas and Isabel to learn another part of the unvirtuous secular and as love...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Saints and Sinners | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

Ward's approach provokes thought, but too often her symbols become stereotypes removed from the realities of the society. The church seems too milk-white, beneficently bestowing its noble goodness on peasants and Guardia alike. The revolutionaries seem too selfish, petulant and shallow. The audience hears the superficial fire of...

Author: By John KENT Walker, | Title: Playing With Fire | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

As famous as Jake was for being able to take it in the ring, he was even more notorious for dishing it out at home. Half brutal patriarch, half petulant child, he played the suspicious sadist to his wife Vickie, his brother Joey, his best friend Pete Petrella. Pete stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Animal House | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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