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American Graffiti
August 24 1973
THE SCENE was Ravinia Park .last week. A would-be folksinger had completed his last number; a pack of maybe 20 applauding teen-agers stormed the stage in a self-induced frenzy possibly to affirm the wisdom of their ticket purchases; and 20 rows behind them a 27-year-old grumbled to himself, "Stupid kids."
But what about his musical taste at that age? Hadn't his crowd made "Purple People Eater" and "Alley Ooop" No.1 on the hit parade? Where was his memory? Explanation: Today's asininity quickly becomes tomorrow's nostalgia.
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Saturday Night Fever
December 16 1977
There's an apocryphal story in the movie business about the wise old producer who used to applaud at the end of every movie because he knew how hard it was to make even a bad movie. But "Saturday Night Fever," a very good new movie, makes a sucker out of that old producer, because "Saturday Night Fever" makes good moviemaking seem easy.
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Raging Bull
December 19 1980
AFTER SEEING "Raging Bull" in New York three weeks ago, I wrote that it is one of the best American films of the year, a superb creation of the finest acting-directing team in the United States, Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese.
Since, friends who have seen the picture came away admiring it but pointing out some flaws. The major objection seems to be that the film, which tells the story of brutish '40s boxer Jake La Motta, doesn't have a clean, straight-forward narrative line. (It's a problem that has been noted in the other four Scorsese-De Niro films, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?", "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," and "New York, New York")
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