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STARMAN Directed by John Carpenter Screenplay by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon
...screenplay, rather than the mobster's bullet proves to be the actors worst enemy. The dialogue is reminiscent of old gangster films in the worst sense, particularly surprising coming from the man who made films like "The Godfather." Coppola and his cohorts provide almost no basis for the romantic entanglements that we are expected to believe. The Sandman falls in love with the lovely, leggy Lila Rose when he first sees her. "Will you marry me?" he asks impulsively. This one, searing sentence is the only expression of the couple's love...
Coppola would have been better off if he had bagged his screenplay, taken a small table at the Cotton Club, and let the magic work for itself...
...COTTON CLUB Directed by Francis Coppola Screenplay by William Kennedy and Francis Coppola...
...mythical land (Hollywood), a producer named Robert Evans had a dream: to make a $20 million spectacle about Prohibition-era gangsters operating out of a legendary Harlem nightclub, to cast Al Pacino and Richard Pryor as the stars, and to direct it himself from a screenplay by Mario Puzo. But Evans wanted financial as well as creative control of the film. So he snubbed the studios and went elsewhere for money. He made a deal with an Arab arms merchant but returned the dough. He wooed a bunch of Texas oilmen, but that deal fell through. Then, early...