TITLE: FILM COMMENT Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: March-April 1984; Volume 20, Number 2
CONDITION: Standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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Published Bimonthly By The Film Society Of Lincoln Center.
IN THIS ISSUE:
WORLD OF OUR MOTHERS: Mothers and daughters: they are the post-nuclear family. Marcia Pally looks at Terms of Endearment, then at three foreign films directed by women (including Diane Kurys' Entre Nous), to see what it is parent and child have to say to each other (page 11). And James L. Brooks, in a rare interview, tells Kenneth Turan about bringing Terms to term (p. 18).

GRAND MASTER 'FLASH': If 1983's movies didn't take their cue from the frenetic surrealism of MTV, they aped familiar sitcom and TV-movie formats. For our annual boxoffice review, Gregg Kilday charts 1983's hits and flops, from the syn-tho-dazzle of Flashdance to The Right Stuff.

VCR FEVER: Hollywood sent up a howl when the Supreme Court ruled that you could tape movies and TV shows on your videocassette recorder for free. Imagine: film history in all its splendor available for scavenging on your magic machine. But will you record Ozu's The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice the next time it plays HBO? Or will you memorialize your favorite fantasies of sex and violence, the better to savor them firsthand? From experience, our David Chute has the answer. Forget Ozu. Grab that fantasy software.

MIDSECTION: CAMERAMEN: This year's Oscar nominations did reward one group of young Turks: cinematographers Caleb Deschanel, William Fraker, Don Peterman, and mystery man Gordon Willis. Updating our spcial issue from 1972, Todd McCarthy takes a panoramic view of the new generation of lensers (page 32). And Arlene Zeichner retrospects Hollywood's wizards of still photography(page 42).

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Journals: Hoboken's finest filmmaker, John Sayles, invades Harlem; Pat Auf-derheide reports. Dan Yakir screens a rare homosexual film from Israel.
Ford and Anderson: No, it's not a Nostalgia Ticket for the Republican Party. Lindsay Anderson's fond, contentious book on John Ford has just been published in the U.S., which prompts thoughts from Richard Schickel on Ford's films and the need for cultural heroes.
Oscar Gamble: Match wits with our experts: David Ansen, Lee Beaupre, Stuart Byron, David Denby, Roger Ebert, Myron Meisel, Dale Pollock, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, Kenneth Turan.
Lost 'Weekend': Sam Peckinpah's comeback film, The Osterman Weekend, went away with unseemly abruptness. Richard T. Jameson was there at the beginning and files his report now, after the end.
`Unfaithfully Yours': Compare the new movie with the 1948 Preston Sturges classic and you'll find a case of champagne comedy gone flat. By Veronica Geng.
Claudette Colbert: On April 23 the Film Society of Lincoln Center pays tribute to the movies' most sensible seductress. Here, Stephen Harvey does same.
Independents: World's Fair . . . 68 A new movie commemorates the 1939 World's Fair and its prophecy of a new world. By Kenneth Spence.
Orbits: On the eve of Greystoke, Hollywood's favorite Tarzan swung into that big treehouse in the sky. David Thomson elegizes Johnny Weissmuller.
Books: Roman Scandals: Kenneth Tynan called Roman Po-lanski "the five-foot Pole you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole"; James Toback finds dark and light sides in Polanski's autobiography. Also: Carrie Rickey reviews Peter Biskind's book on Fifties films.
Back Page: Quiz #6: An acrostic puzzle to test your film lore. Try it--you'll like it.


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