Tag: 1970s
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
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‘Norma Rae’ Still Invigorates
‘Norma Rae’ isn’t electrifying by force. Instead, just by carefully dramatizing the process of unionization, it captures the simple thrills of workplace organization — the pleasurable charge felt when you realize it’s possible to have a say in an arena where you never thought you’d have one.
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The Helter-Skelter Brilliance of ‘Bone’
In typical fashion for writer-director Larry Cohen, ‘Bone’ is as prone to incisiveness as feeling like it’s going to fly off the rails and fall apart.
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‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is a Disaster-Movie Turducken
‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is among the cruelest of disaster movies.
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Summer Fun at the Movies
Some movies that remind me of summer.
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‘Thomasine & Bushrod’ is an Underappreciated Lovers-on-the-Run Movie
‘Thomasine & Bushrod’ remains one of the blaxploitation era’s best made, and most thoughtful, works.
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‘Charley Varrick’ is an Expertly Constructed Thriller
One of its many wonders is how it moves to and from the several characters involved in this cat-and-mouse chase without losing any of its high-stress momentum.
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The Love Games of ‘César and Rosalie’
The movie is so likable and spiritedly acted that its flaws are only incidental in our overall enjoyment of it.
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‘Innocents with Dirty Hands’ is Among Claude Chabrol’s Most Straightforwardly Entertaining Movies
In ‘Innocents with Dirty Hands,’ Chabrol’s uncharacteristically keyed-up thriller, few people say what they mean or are thinking what you think they are.
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Time is Having All the Fun in ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’
It moves over there when you want it to go here; relentlessly zigging and zagging, it plays by rules so cryptic that after a while you have to settle into the fact that linearity is only bent and swirled around here.
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Fake Smiles: Two by Frank Perry
On ‘Diary of a Mad Housewife’ and ‘Play It As It Lays.’
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