Word: scenarists
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...Scenarist Shrake has provided some good, funky dialogue, and Frawley is a director who gives his actors time and room to move around in their parts. Warren Gates is exemplary as a factory worker enamored of the ancient Greeks ("They went around barefooted, wearing sheets and other comfortable things, and men could love each other and not be ashamed"). Lee Purcell fetching as his wife. Peter Boyle as a preacher with an interest in aeronautics and narcotics, and Ben Johnson as Mean John make a fine couple of Texas crazies...
...UNCLE ANTOINE is a standout made in Quebec, an area that has not produced great films in the past, yet it is far more than a pleasant surprise. Director Claude Jutra and scenarist Clement Perron treat the central subject of a boy's early adolescence with greater exuberance and insight than most film-makers who have dealt with youth. Going far beyond the story of the boy, the film-makers have enriched their film with the energy that exists alongside poverty in backwoods Quebec. Within the loose structure of the film, vivid images which delight the eye become reference points...
There are some quiet laughs, and those ominous black campers exert a weird, compulsive kind of suspense, although they are a lot more intriguing in their cryptic malevolence than in the mundane explanation eventually dispensed by the scenarist...
...television light," meaning that the frame is burned with bright light so that everything will show up clearly on the home screen. In a theater, where the image is much larger, such a misconceived technique makes the actors look as if they were being paraded through a police lineup. Scenarist Don Carpenter has provided some pretty good redneck dialogue, and there is a well-observed performance by Michael C. Gwynne as Maury's tense, troll-like manager, who looks as if he regarded the daylight hours as a direct threat to his health...
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...