The grand. gray-stone mansion, isolated in lush English countryside — no greener green anywhere-appears from a postcard-distance to be the sort of setting for fantasies of elegant weekend junkets, given to marking time and making …
March 1, 1973
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Sleuth: Sloth in a Cozy Humidor
Billy Wilder brings in Ralph Nader, Dr. Christian Barnard, J. Edgar Hoover, Northern Ireland, Polaroid Instamatics, the Baltimore Orioles
Snapshot of a weekend in Ischia: From beneath the airliner's silver belly, the landing gear retracts. stiffly like chickens' legs; and the plane's shadow, on the runway below. shrinks rapidly as the distance to the …
February 15, 1973
Best of 1972: Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime, Walkabout, Hickey and Boggs, The Culpepper Callie Co, The Pied Piper, Ulzana's Raid
Like before any game, ground rules ought to be laid out, plainly, fastidiously, before ticking off the selection of the year past's stand-out movies, The only real requirement is to clarify the criterion for eligibility …
January 25, 1973
Martin Ritt moves around more at ease in Pete and Tillie's neighborhood than in Sounder's.
Obviously one of the unavoidable discussion topics, when Pete and Tillie and Sounder are playing ten minutes away from each other along Highway 8, is some sort of attempted assay of Mr. Martin Ritt, since …
January 18, 1973
Ulzana's Raid doesn't follow charted roads
In Ulzana's Raid, after an opening shot of the Indian Reservation's signboard, a scant handful of Apaches ("Apache war parties come in all sizes") silently lead a string of horses out of the corral and …
December 14, 1972
Los Angeles Film Expo
For an eleven day stand, starting November 9, the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood will bulge with movies. Movies in unfamiliar language, usually (the most grating must be Danish, weaving between whine and stutter, seldom …
November 16, 1972
Hickey & Boggs: Not Your Normal Gumshoes
Hickey and Boggs — each is the kind of name which must expect a lifelong siege of puns, nonsense rhymes, snide pronunciations; together they sound like a partnership in a realty agency. Virtually the movie's …
November 2, 1972