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Panther, the new film directed by Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City) from a screenplay by his father Melvin (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song), is indeed a movie: an earnest, naive, fitfully engrossing film with urgent performances and a final plot twist that stretches credulity to the snapping point. But because the subject is the Black Panther Party for Self Defense-the notorious cadre of black radicals that incited and attracted much of the '60s edgiest violence-Panther is more than a movie. It's the cause of raucous dispute, a chance for opening and licking old wounds about...
...tired of being treated as if you were born yesterday? The fashionable novelist Richard Price has done a reasonably good job of slipcovering the source of this remake's screenplay, and Schroeder has energetically tarted up his version of a film Henry Hathaway originally shot in a rather austere semi-documentary style. But the fact is that the basic situation, most of the main narrative beats and all the major characters are essentially as they were 48 years ago (as a trip to any well-stocked video store will prove...
Perhaps his sweet tooth does not extend to the syrupy script. Writer and director Leven, a psychotherapist who spent time on the Harvard faculty, was not expecting this acting trinity to descend upon his humble screenplay and is simply unprepared to handle such an awesome burden on his first stint as a director...
...been a favorite at international film festivals, garnering Best Actor for Thompson at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, and best screenplay in Montreal, among others. It is funny and wonderfully intriguing, confronting issues which people face every day, but that are seldom tackled by the American film industry. As director Kevin Dowling said, "The Sum of Us" celebrates the knowledge that "whether straight or gay, familial or romantic, love is love...
Fitzgerald romanticized the business (as he did everything else) and so vastly exaggerated his census of production genius. Another writer, William Goldman, author and fixer of many a screenplay, came closer to the true figure, which is zip. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, he wrote, putting his dictum in capital letters in the vain hope that people would pay serious attention...