Word: schickele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latter resolution in Parallax and it is a downer. Though a touch of paranoid fantasizing can energize an entertainment, too much of it is just plain crazy-neither truthful nor useful. And certainly nothing for responsible men to try to make a buck with in the movies. ∎ Richard Schickel...
...other things, a good corrective to last year's PBS trip with the Louds, not to mention a decade of American self-contempt over the war. In the long process of "bringing us together again," 2,251 Days is a significant step in the right direction. ∎ Richard Schickel...
...Land. There was a certain stately glory to those works, a sense that Troell's pioneers were big enough to deserve the great country he seemed to perceive with a fresh eye. In Zandy's Bride the land is unfortunately allowed to dwarf the characters. · Richard Schickel...
...then what can you expect of a movie about blacks in which the main love scene is preceded by a meal of fried chicken? Thank heavens they did not have watermelon for dessert, but that is about the only cliché of black life the film has avoided. Richard Schickel...
...problems without such corniness. Newsweek's Paul Zimmerman asked, "Who needs a film about a white man who teaches blacks how to think?" (But if black children are taught to think by blacks or liberated whites, aren't the rednecks the only ones who lose?) And in Time, Richard Schickel compared Conroy's relentless idealism to Chinese water torture...