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JEREMIAH JOHNSON. "The real Jeremiah Johnson," Screenwriter Edward Anhlat has explained, "killed 247 Crow Indians and then ate their livers, and that's not nice." The film that was extracted, with considerable timidity and falsification, from the Johnson saga is exactly that-nice. Its niceness is both part of its charm and its undoing...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS. Adapted from Paul Zindel's 1971 Pulitzer-prizewinning play, this saga of a bitchy, boozy mother and the two daughters she victimizes is sentimental without really being tender, naturalistic without being real. The elder daughter (Roberta Wallach), a callipygous, gum-snapping high school cheerleader, suffers from epileptic seizures-presumably a result of life with mother. The younger, ethereal offspring (Nell Potts) escapes into the world of scientific research. She wins a prize for a school experiment concerning the supposed deleterious effects of gamma rays on sensitive marigolds: some survive...
...Your comparison of Liv Ullmann and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House was apt. Ibsen was one of the enlightened few of the 19th century who realized that women had problems requiring serious consideration from our conventional society. The saga of Liv Ullmann brings a live modern woman to speak her own piece from her own experience...
...kind of FM Buddy Glass who rummages through his memories and fantasies looking for an always elusive epiphany. This odd, irresistibly fascinating film begins with one of his stories. "I promised to tell you why I never eat fish," David says to his radio audience, embarking on a desultory saga about how, years before, he and his brother Jason conspired to kill their grandfather with a piece of breaded sole and become "accomplices forever." The old man is very much alive, of course; David lives with him still, until a message arrives from Jason in Atlantic City: "Get your...
...seen by these farmers, the last two minutes is this alone. Kari pushes on in Minnesota while the others stop, seeking the best possible farmland for his family. He cuts his way through miles of forest until he reaches the meadows by the shores of Lake Ki-Chi-Saga. Troell cuts with a compass to four views of the land the Swede has chosen. And after Karl has chopped the bark of a tree to mark his claim, knowing that he has done right by all and enchanted by his prospects, he naps. As the camera hovers inches from...