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HURRICANE Directed by Jan Troell Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple...
Still, all this has a bit more energy than the affair between Farrow and Ka'ne, who after endless delays are mostly directed to nibble each other's necks and take decorously clothed swims and beach walks to demonstrate their affection. Swedish Film Maker Jan Troell, who has made terse, beautiful movies (The Emigrants, The New Land), here seems merely distant and befuddled, as does his usually superb cameraman, Sven Nykvist. The poorly shot concluding hurricane is supposed to be a sort of heavenly analogy to human passions we have been witnessing at play. In the circumstances...
Just how difficult this is to do is demonstrated by the Larsen family's travails on The New Land (ABC, Saturday, 8 p.m. E.D.T). This series is based vaguely on Jan Troell's beautifully photographed, movingly understated and intensely serious films about a family of Swedish pioneer farmers working the Minnesota prairies about 20 years before the Ingallses arrived there. Yet the atmospheric authenticity that sustained Troell's movies is apparently impossible to duplicate on a television snooting schedule. Worse, in contrast to Little House, which keeps a tight focus on a single family, thus stressing...
Directed by JAN TROELL...
Even such able performers as Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann cannot bring off a rescue effort without a little help from the writer and the director. Writer Norman has contented himself with providing a painfully straightforward story line, to which Director Troell has pinned a number of handsome album shots that appear to have been left over from his earlier The Emigrants and The New Land. There was a certain stately glory to those works, a sense that Troell's pioneers were big enough to deserve the great country he seemed to perceive with a fresh eye. In Zandy...