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RAGTIME Directed by Milos Forman; Screenplay by Michael Weller...
Directed by Sidney Pollack Screenplay by Kurt Luedtke omeone with no face and no name is trying to get me. And you're the gofer." The angry speaker is a man named Michael Gallagher. It is his misfortune to be the son and nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune...
...literary output. He wrote about drugs. The Trip (1967), directed by Corman and starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Bruce Dern, detailed, in an obscure way, an L.S.D. experience. Not coincidentally, wife Sandra had experienced a bad trip; understandably, she implored Jack not to work on such a screenplay; not surprisingly, he doggedly persevered, and she packed up and left with daughter Jennifer before The Trip was completed...
...face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less welcome than ignored. He will have more fun holding Time Bandits at arm's length-in the movie's illustrated screenplay, published by Doubleday, and available at a price just slightly more than the amount Gilliam's film is likely to take in from befuddled moviegoers...
...screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of the original Flash Gordon: yet it remains an underwhelming story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across...