A ‘salt of the Earth’ Missouri woman on vacation in Paris slowly gives in to the advances of a pushy–and very much married–French yuppie. Will their unconventional romance last until September, when she must return home?

Until.September.1984.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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At the climax of the spirited teen gangland film, one that unevenly blends together nostalgia and a story of urban angst, Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin'” blares out of a Folk City club and signals the beginning of a possibly new enlightened era for the country. The episodic rock’n’roll film passionately directed by Philip Kaufman (“The White Dawn”/”The Right Stuff”/”Quills”) is good at getting at the symbolic changes that took place in its Bronx, Fordham Road, setting, in 1963, and the swagger of teen gangs and their problematic upbringing and aimless street-life existence, but its character depictions, gang rumbles and racial healing scenes are pure Hollywood hokum. The crudely entertaining cultish comedy/drama, strongly driven by a great golden oldies score (including songs such as Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ “You Really Got A Hold On Me,” The Contours’ “Do You Love Me,” the Shirelles’ “Soldier Boy,” and the Surfaris’ “Wipe Out”), is based on the novel by Richard Price and is co-written by Kaufman and his wife Rose.

The Wanderers are a tame Bronx gang in the fall of 1963, who are all Italian high school students and are garbed in gang uniform satin baseball jackets. The gang has a strong sense of camaraderie, and have a whistle call to sound the alarm to round up members when there’s danger. The gang exists to give them firepower against tougher turf rivals like the older head-shaven Fordham Baldies, the black gang called the Del Bombers and the toughest Bronx gang called the Ducky Boys. Also to socialize with Italian girls, to give them a sense of identity and a protective outlet for their macho behavior. Richie (Ken Wahl) is a knuckle-head, but seems to be the most likable and together gang member and their apparent leader. Other members include Joey (John Friedrich), a punky loud-mouth, whose father Emilio (William Andrews) is an abusive bully; Turkey (Alan Rosenberg), a weasel-like big-talker who shaved his head in hopes of joining the Baldies; and new to the neighborhood via Trenton, NJ, the mysterious 19-year-old kind-hearted tough guy named Perry (Tony Ganios), who is recruited into the gang.

The action takes place in vignettes and has a number of set pieces that include: the Baldies and their giant leader Terror (Erland Van Lidth De Jeude) going after Joey for calling them names, and the frightened Joey saved from a beating by Perry; a classroom fight unintentionally instigated during a lesson on racial tolerance by inept teacher Mr. Sharp (Val Avery) between the ‘coloreds’ and the Italians; A bowling alley pay back of bowling hustlers by the adult Mafia members led by Chubby Gelasso (Dolph Sweet), who resents that The Wanderers were previously hustled by pros in disguise; on the street, The Wanderers copping feels from big-breasted women by bumping into them; a party for The Wanderers in the home of Richie’s girlfriend Despie Galasso (Toni Kalem), where Richie’s new girl of interest is the bohemian Nina (Karen Allen) who shows up and makes the hostess jealous; a strip-poker game among Richie and his two girls of interest; the Baldies when drunk being tricked into enlisting in the Marines by an amoral recruiter (Burtt Harris); a rumble on the football field between the Ducky Boys and the unlikely allies of the black Del Bombers led by Clinton (Michael Wright), The Wanderers and the Asian martial-arts gang called the Wongs. Their motto is classic: ‘Don’t fuck with the Wongs.’ All the nostalgia for the 1950s rock’n’roll and macho attitude ends with the Kennedy Assassination and the anthem song of the period prior to 1963, Dion’s The Wanderer, sung now as a golden oldie.

The cartoonish violent film makes no social comments on the events of the day, as it just sticks to having fun with this group of mostly meatheads and lets us see tenement life back then as a dead-end existence and how easily violence is passed on to the next generation. Its message is that for those unable to change their ways and discover a better way of living, there’s only the same old thing awaiting them. What the film couldn’t do was make its characters inspiring or the set piece situations from being mostly tasteless or the gang depictions to be more convincing. If you want to get a truer and deeper picture of this neighborhood scene, you would have to read the more observant book.

Philip Kaufman - (1979) The Wanderers.mkv

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Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York’s seedy underbelly in Cruising – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer.

New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city’s underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.

Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker’s novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino’s haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece.

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A 1980 psychological thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name, by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a serial killer targeting gay men, in particular those associated with the S&M scene.
Poorly reviewed by critics, Cruising was a modest financial success, though the filming and promotion were dogged by gay rights protesters. The title is a play on words with a dual meaning, as “cruising” can describe police officers on patrol and also cruising for sex.

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All George Dunlap (Albert Finney) wants to do is to give his 13-year-old daughter a typewriter for her birthday. It is hardly the impossible dream; it isn’t even an unreasonable request. But George recently walked out on his wife Faith (Diane Keaton) and their four daughters, for all those vague but somehow imperative reasons for which people leave people these days, and Daughter Sherry (Dana Hill) is not buying any of them. Nor is she covering her confusion with forgiveness. Better just not to speak to the creep. When Faith tries to avoid a scene by keeping George out of their handsome old Marin County house, George breaks in and pounds up the stairs to confront his eldest. She fights off his blend of bewildered love and rage. He spanks her. She threatens him with a scissors. They end in a sodden tangle of bodies and emotions on her bed.

By this time the whole house is in an uproar, but as George staggers back down the stairs, a little voice rises above the others and, trying to control its hysteria, makes the sweet, placatory offer that has never been refused before: “Daddy, can I make you a hamburger with onions?” Up to this point the scene has been fine, a well-made representation of the craziness that is bound to burst forth in even the most civilized of separations. But that one line confirms a thought that has been building from the beginning of Shoot the Moon, namely that something rather special is at hand: a movie that attends the way real people respond to the realities of ordinary life.

Throughout, the moviemakers observe all kinds of quotidian events in the sundering of the Dunlaps without turning them into heavily fraught symbolic moments: the children clamoring for eye shadow as their mother tries to put on makeup for a party; the nervous chipperness of George’s lady friend (Karen Allen) when she meets the children for the first time; and their attempt to give her a fair chance without being disloyal to their mother; George self-consciously trying to be brave in front of them and not being able to keep the self-pity out of it; the puzzling way nostalgia has of flaring up as quickly as anger in the confrontation between former mates.

Concentration on the telling detail is a way good writers have of avoiding both melodrama and sentimentality, which blanched the hard truth of Kramer vs. Kramer. As he proved in Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman is a very good writer, a man whose world appears to be filled with mild eccentrics and funny overheard remarks that he gets down just right in his mental notebook. His specificity seems to have disciplined Alan Parker, who in the past has liked to stress the ugly metaphorical overtones in his material (in Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world is a Turkish prison, when really only Turkish prisons are Turkish prisons). Except for reaching for too big a finish, a fight between George and the man who has taken his place in Faith’s life that is too brutal for what has gone before, Parker controls himself here.

Finney’s fuzziness, that slightly out-of-focus quality he often has onscreen, here serves his befuddled character perfectly. Keaton has the courage to let tiredness show in the lines around her mouth and eyes, to stipulate that she is the victim in this situation and then get on to other more interesting situations. Nobody ever tries to explain why the nice, successful Dunlaps are breaking up. These days, who knows? All anyone can say with certainty is that theirs is now among the most familiar of passages, and that Shoot the Moon is the best chart of it the movies have yet drawn.–Richard Schickel, Time Magazine, 02-01-82

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