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CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS Directed by Frangois Truffaut Screenplay by Franqois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Aurel...
...SHIP SAILS ON Directed by Federico Fellini Screenplay by Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
...that he feels badly treated by the studios. His screenplays for Cujo and The Dead Zone were reworked by others, but he still liked the finished films. And he is enthusiastic about Christine. "I wanted to go back and see it over again," the author says. "I've been lucky. I've had six adaptations of my novels, and there hasn't been a real dog in the bunch." (His only major reservation was with Stanley Kubrick's elegant, brooding 1980 version of The Shining; King found the director too "pragmatic and rational.") Though...
...Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein...
...suitable subject for sympathy. This film, which turns François Truffaut's delicious 1977 Gallic soufflé into singles' restaurant quiche, suffers centrally from that miscalculation. Producer-Director Blake Edwards, normally a gifted farceur ("10," S.O.B.), turned to a psychologist for help with this screenplay, with predictably shrinking effect on the picture's sense of fun. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews is the doctor who eventually succumbs to Burt Reynolds, essaying the title role. Robbed of his truest voice, that of a self-satirizing satyr, Reynolds goes cute, little-boyish and awful. Even the photography...