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...father) upstream on the River Styx; then it fogged off into fantasyland with Marlon Buddha. Only Company C, a standard-issue war film about recruits betrayed by their incompetent officers, spent much time in a Nam combat zone. But it really resided, with The Green Berets, in the twilight zone of World War II gestures and bromides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...playground, where the move counts as much as the basket, "winners' out" is the rule. Score the hoop, keep the ball. Win the game, maintain the court. Hold out until dark if you can, or at least until twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. J Is Flying Away | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...first day I went into the township, I saw policemen standing on an armored personnel carrier shooting into a crowd. I saw Black vigilantes tearing down squatter shacks," Waldorf says. "All this 20 kilometers from the beautiful white suburbs. It was like a Twilight Zone `Parallel Universe' episode...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Crossing the Roads of South Africa | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...surprising that at the twilight of his life, this introspective artist should imagine the last flash of the last night of everybody's life -- the end of the world -- on film. The Sacrifice comprises 24 hours in the lives of eight people at a secluded summer house. The upstairs quartet is Alexander (Josephson), a former actor who now teaches aesthetics; his English wife (Susan Fleetwood); a grown daughter (Filippa Franzen); and an adored son called Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist). In various levels of the servant class are two maids, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir); Victor (Sven Wollter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: End-of-the- World Blues the Sacrifice | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...played a Middle-American bigot who miraculously finds himself placed in the positions of the Blacks, Jews, Asians and others he hates. In the end, Morrow was to be redeemed by his experience, but due to the accident, the segment was left with a more ambiguous ending. Still, Landis' Twilight Zone prologue, with Aykroyd and Albert Brooks driving along a deserted road, is a wonderfully effective piece of American Werewolf-like comedy-horror. Likewise, his other pictures have often been flawed but given a sense of anarchistic earnestness that, like the many misfiring SNL sketches, earns an audience's indulgence...

Author: By Jess M. Bavin, | Title: Without Rules | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

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