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...that it's a bad film. Several bad films, actually. First it's a comedy of desperation, with lots of sight gags (a machine that spits quarters in Viktor's face, too many people slipping on a wet floor) in the style of French comic actor-director Jacques Tati. Then it's a love story, as Viktor romances a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Finally the uplifting and heart tugging kick in. The Terminal is Spielberg's shortest feature since the first Jurassic Park, yet it drags, plods, piling one lifeless situation atop another. For all the effort and good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: As Bad as They Say? | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...only we could get tickets to Cultural Rhythms, we would get jiggy wit' the Fresh Prince. Will Tati and 'N Sync be there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this 70-minute Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau, but gags about man's obsessive relations with machines still work in a Walkman world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 29, 1989 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this 70-minute Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau, but gags about man's obsessive relations with machines still work in a Walkman world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 22, 1989 | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...girl lost and maybe won. Some technology- ( inspired images are new -- Irwin silently screams from inside a TV until someone vacuums up his video image and expels it into an old trunk, from which the lanky actor unfolds -- but the show owes a lot to Chaplin and Harpo, Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau. Still, they are the people to copy, and Irwin surely has the gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bowing Out with a Flourish | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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