David B. Edelstein
Staking the Wild Vampire
I N THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES of the new Dracula, Frank Langella literally rips out a man's throat, and you
The Beast in All of Us
A LIEN will scare the pus out of you pinball machine. It artlessly fuses Jaws' jaws, Kubrick's 2001 portentousness, and-rather
Ding Dong
J OHN WAYNE died a week ago at the age of 72. He fought a long and courageous battle with
Phantom of the Cinema
T his story begins on a grey morning, about two weeks ago. We decided to journey to Walden Pond, to
Strangely Bland
P EOPLE WILL see the new play Strangers for Bruce Dern, but they'll be surprised at how the stage softens
Nonelectric Trains
T HE MOST EXCITING moment in Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery comes during the first 15 minutes of the
Beautiful Music Together
I T WAS A LITTLE LIKE Lopahin buying the cherry orchard--nobody yippeed. When the Corporation named Robert S. Brustein to
Floating Shakespeare
P ETER SELLARS has stroked a bold production of Antony and Cleopatra in the ghostly waters of Adams House Pool,
A Brustein Portrait
Robert Brustein has earned the label "controversial" at Yale, at Harvard, in the American theater--a brilliant scholar who is also
Christmas Movies
I haven't seen very much of the stuff that's going to be around over Christmas, but you haven't either. It's
Friedkin Talks on Brink's Film; Falk and DeLaurentiis Cancel
Director William Friedkin told an audience of 300 last night that he made his latest film, "The Brink's Job" as
Imperfect Despair
S ELF-CONSCIOUS. Dirk Bogarde's Herman Hermann watches every move he makes through an invisible movie camera. He's constantly framed by
Cloning A Disaster
T HE IDEA FOR Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil is potentially no more idiotic than those which have fueled
A Forced Rescue
Can't we help those poor people? There must be something we can do. My daddy has a boat... --probable excerpt
PANTHER PUREE
I T'S STRANGE, but the Pink Panther is a very controversial animal. Sample a random number of reasonably intelligent people
