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MOVIES . . . CHASING AMY: "If you loved 'Sleepless in Seattle,' you?ll just hate 'Chasing Amy,''" says TIME's Richard Schickel. As director Kevin Smith proved with a few bucks and some black-and-white film stock in 'Clerks,' he?s an original, a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Gen-X mess. In 'Chasing Amy,' he has moved up slightly?color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions...
MOVIES . . . CHASING AMY: "If you loved 'Sleepless in Seattle,' you?ll just hate 'Chasing Amy,''" says TIME's Richard Schickel. As director Kevin Smith proved with a few bucks and some black-and-white film stock in 'Clerks,' he?s an original, a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Gen-X mess. In 'Chasing Amy,' he has moved up slightly?color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions...
...Richard Schickel...
...much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must come, but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. "Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford?s work?no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does?and director Alan J. Pakula?s analogous strengths. Pakula develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying...
...Richard Schickel...