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'iy ^>i iB^li nTi W|m| WMB1T11 / ''^ %&\ ft V 1. HEAVEN CAN Warren Beatty's spar make of Here Con Jordan is a landn modern comeay. material, about a pi terback who is sumn heaven before his ti talks his way into a rel is touchy to say the 1 Beatty and co-sta Christie carry it off w I i (Jr a* \\ 2 & *** s i '4XS&? \V, ' # i /P 4 ? | ^ I i AMONG wit, and a sense of i that is ail too uncc today's motion pictu Cannon and Charle are stellar in suppor 2. INTERIORS. / aged family man ash for a trial separatio; his family apart. Allen's first seriou fl B Johi ^ /< V -j^Xhe WAIT. Droves him to be as ac kling re- tragedy as he is at c< les Mr. Allen's use of color, sour lark of camera angles turn thi The into a master tapes ro quar- American life durii loned to darkest moments. ? Lme and Griffith, Mary Beth turn trip, Richard Jordan, east, but Waterston, and Mi r Julie Stapleton are excellen ith style, Diane Keaton is a rev< THE BEST: Allen's Interiors' poignancy 3. AN UNMA immon in WOMAN. Througho res. Dyan emotional highs and ss Grodin Paul Mazursky's t. winning comedy-dram V middle- is a stunningly natui :s his wife formance by the lov n, tearing Clayburgh. And thoi Woody ending is a complete I is drama of what is said earlier, n Cromwell comforts Lillian ? tf) K^1f) ' \^wy y lO Beat lept at is filled with a coui >medy. number of touching mor id, and all of which stay wit 10 film vipwpr for davs. IV A ill A A ? ?' ? V try of 4. JULIA. Nominated ig its 1977 Academy Awards, [risten winner of four of them, Hurt, Zinnemann's bitters Sam masterpiece about frier aureen in times of war didn't plj it, and Carolinas until 1978. Base rk\ of i An of rvwixr in T ?11i n r* Unlit cianun. anjijr in uniiaii iiuin autobiographical best "Pentimento," it cor towering portrayals by Fonda, Vanessa Redg Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell. 5. SUPERMAN. A CO kaleidoscopic fantasy ft $40 million, is one of the expensive films ever pro< Director Richard D keeps the action nicely I \ | up to comic strip propt \ u/ithmif pupr lptHnff it op y As the Man of <A ' Christopher Reeve mak most outstanding n picture debut of the dec 6. GREASE. No or truthfully call "Greai great piece of filmma* good deal of it is silly, an of it is criminally ove OaMI Id, 1 ~ A. 1 f ^ mui, 11 is consistent tertaining for two solid and in these days, th. RRIED small accomplishment ut the "You're the One That I lows in sequence, where a hot award- Newton-John struts, a, there an(* bounces along in ? tv> nnnnn io 4 rai p0j>. acuutuvc uiaiuici, is i ely Jill solute highlight of the lgh the ^m. betrayal 7. COMING HOMI the film Voight won the 1978 Bes ?-*-8P % **k ::J9H .. . I HpB ^ < :v. Gish in A Wedding' ww- U?? ry iPy ntless award at the Cannes Fil] nents. Festival for his portrayal of h the paraplegic Vietnam Vetera and Jane Fonda matches hi for 11 **ne f?r line in this wonderful and sexy love story directed by H Fred Ashby. The duo's pe iWeet formances grow surprising idship richer with each viewing, ai ay the ^ any m?vie stands a chance dona sweeping this year's Oscar nan's "Coming Home" is it. seller " 1 (?l Tirpc1 nm itains ft. t^/uLirouiiij. xi Jane third Ray Stark-Herbert Roj rrave Neil Simon collaboration and superior to "The Goodb; Girl," but I don't like it quite lorful we^ as MThe Sun?hll*e Boys at t A witty, broad-based come ; *! with serious overtom liwW "California Suite" features jUCeG. nnmKar nnfnrodof f oK HUillMVi VI UIIAUi V^VVVMIC onner scenes m0st of them courtc D!?.wn~ of Michael Caine and Magj \ni s Smith. t silly. Ste?J? 9. I WANNA HOLD YOI ^ H11e HAND. Hilarious story ab< HhI011 s*x New Jersey teenagers a their attempts to get tic kets le can see The Beatles' first j seM a pearance on the Ed Sulli\ dng. A Show in February 1964. id most terestingly enough, what coi racted. have been the film's bigg ly en- problem, the fact that 1 hours, Beatles cannot be shown, at's no turned into its great L. ine resource inrougn uirec Want" Robert Zemeckis1 creativi Olivia He shoots scenes from beh whirls, doors, from under beds, a most cetera, and makes it all w< the ab- beautifully. year in i0. COMA. Chill American Gothic about 5. Jon evil-doings in Boston Memoi >t Actor Hospital. Although Mich Cricnton's script is often serious-minded that dialogue could only be f; i unuciaiuuu uy pre-u students, it maintains sue high level of suspense that the end of the film you wan go running from the theatr search of tranquilizers. Equal plaudits should g< Ife Terrence Malick's beaut HKiik but boring I)avs of Hp^ WJF Paul Schrader's Blue Col which features stanc J performances from Rich p Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, R. Harvey Keitel; Magic, the of which describes its eff lik and a trio of underr* HB comedies: A Wedding, 1 Play and National Lampo Animal House. -i acireer the gooi m ByD ly ' l?nt?rti al r. List-making time is upon us one |y again. This year, while leafing throuj 1 j some other newspapers, I noticed thi * several criucs mtroaucea tneir nsis [ t saying how much they hated to wri s? them. Strangely enough, none hated tl task enough to forego it. . I must confess that I enjoy making i annual list. I look upon it as a chance *?" reappraise those films which, early 1S the year, didn't seem like much un ye compared with the bombs that car as out later. ft , Looking back, 1978 doesn't seem li y such a very hot year for movies. The 's? was nothing really sensational like a Looking For Mr. Goodbar to top off t >le L lllQ ork gg|P ^ ing Walter Matthau bee the rial ael g -v- the lhmh^ on's Mel Brooks flees the py ^ m v