Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never wanted to do a film so badly, except maybe 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which I didn't try hard enough to get, and lost out to Jack Nicholson," he said. He added that the movie, which will be released in 1979, is a "romantic comedy, sort of a masculine counterpart of An Unmarried Woman,'" in which a middle-aged, conservative college teacher tries to recover from his divorce...
Director Guy Hamilton, who has also done his share of Bonds, has a gift for moving this sort of nonsense right along, and the special effects, when everyone finally gets around to blowing up all the concrete in sight, are persuasive enough. There are occasional moments of violent excess (a decapitation, the sadism visited on Bach) that uncomfortably remind us of the harsh realities...
...That sort of thing is best left to serious movies; it has no place in films that are basically in the Boys' Own Adventure tradition, which even little kids understand are intended to glorify the heroic ideal. In such entertainments, the background events should be as undisturbingly abstract as that of a Road Runner cartoon. - Richard Schickel
...Peter's Church (in Manhattan's Citicorp Building), is done with impeccable taste and graced with skilled key performances that equal or surpass anything to be seen at present in the New York theater. Displaying no cosmetically applied malignancies, Philip Anglim 's Merrick is like some sort of simple, twisted saint...
...them prancing around an obviously paper-mache underground temple makes one very aware that the director is faking it. The moral dilemma is an excuse for not being able to come up with a better ending, and it makes the movie very difficult to accept. If there is any sort of supernatural justice, if directors ever have to pay for exploiting old themes, for substituting self-righteous liberal indignity for imagination, then you should see Peter Weir float by any minute...