Michael Sragow
Polish Magic
O NE THING YOU'D least expect from any Soviet-bloc film industry, much less Poland's is an elegant celebration of magic.
Bad 'Uns
G IVE AMERICAN film makers a drop of truth, and they'll try to expand it into oceans. A decade ago,
"Get Thee to a Land That I Will Show Thee"
T HE EMIGRANTS is one of the great films that not only succeeds on its own terms, but could persuade
Boorman's Beauty
J AMES DICKEYS DELIVERANCE more a curiosity than a novel has been turned into one of the purest action films
Kultcha and Anarchy
Leslie Fiedler spoke at Harvard last summer on the cultural revolution which supposedly occurred in the last decade, claiming that
White Liberal, Black Superman
T HERE is a very short history of films made by committed artists with political intentions. There are the famous
Super Fly
A CURRENT SPATE of films starring, written and directed by blacks is filling urban movie houses and treating ethnic audiences
Lonesome Cowboy, Wandering Son
J UNIOR BONNER begins with a black-and-white fog-grained portrait of the title rodeo star, played acutely by a mellowed Steve
Tenant Groups Oppose Return to '67 Rent Base
Over 500 Cambridge tenants packed the Rindge Tech auditorium to discuss provisional rent control procedures last night at the third
A Simon Screw Job
THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL, is one of the most forgettable plays I've ever seen. A Neil Simon comedy, it turns on
Frenzy
A LFRED HITHCOCK'S Frenzy has arrived in Boston well-ballyhooed with the raves it garnered when shown out of competition at
The Catonsville Bomb
G REGORY PECK is a mild-mannered Hollywood liberal. He defends culpable friends in private, and perhaps the causes that incriminate
Simonizing
R EAD Pauline Kael's I Lost It at the Movies and all the autobiographical sidetracks over psychic frustrations and coed
Fritz Don't Profess Any Graces
F RITZ THE CAT is more than a hot-shot college feline chasing tail and getting pussy. It's a zoot-suited, claw-wagging
"Oscar Wiles"
The kitsch didn't really hit the fan until the scene was set for Charles Chaplin's honorary Oscar. Daniel Taradash, the
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