Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Based on the original script of a contemporary Korean playwright residing in the United States, Incantation draws upon traditional elements of native drama, song, and folk dance to get across its less-than-traditional historical perspective on the Korean people's oppression under foreign aggression, and on the past and future prospects for the divided nation's reunification...
...Spacek and Kline could have generated some electricity between them, this issue might have been more promising. But they are grounded by a predictable script by Naomi Foner and the cliche-ridden direction of Spacek's husband Jack Fisk. The result may someday become a footnote in the history of the impact of feminism on Hollywood romance. Moviegoers looking for fun and frolic are advised to wait for the book. By Richard Schickel...
...favorite of his and forget it. Instead, the writer-director keeps trying to revitalize that shadowy, romantic style of the '40s by putting a hip spin on it. This strategy worked pretty well for him two years ago in Choose Me, shot in a surreal light and featuring a script that had the giddy loquacity of a liars' convention...
...Beautiful Laundrette may be packed with charming irony but it never disguises the fact that the violence and frustration of this small section of the world is mounting. Throughout the film, the unlucky players seem to be heading ever more quickly toward disaster. Kureishi's lively, compassionate script and Frears' steady direction provide some comic relief and, just as important, wise and unblearyeyed condemnations...
...there always something futile, pathetic, uncomfortably personal about the post-script? Displaying its ostensible, self-conscious triviality like an impostor's fake medals, it challenges us to criticize: "Today only the critic executes the work (pun intended)." Yes, but who sentenced it to death...