It’s also amusing to hear Roger confidently state that Jill Clayburgh was sure to win the Oscar for An Unmarried Woman. View production, box office, & company info. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank. It's no one wonder Tarantino would want to study this film-it's remarkable. Corey RandManager . (1978). Gary BuseyEarl Frank . Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statuette went to Jane Fonda for the somewhat soapy Coming Home. . The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967), 84. . Screen Slate depends on reader support to provide local film & video coverage. The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public. Change ). . Harry Dean Stanton (probably one of my favorite actors) plays one of Hoffman's partners in heist. Rita Taggart, See the article in its original context from. . A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates. Despite the negative result, Frank leaves Max for a week imprisoned. . In "Straight Time," in the person of Dustin Hoffman, he's a fascinating character, made romantic only to the extent that an actor of such stature invests him with importance that is otherwise denied. Straight Time: He Wrote It for Criminals (1978) (TV Short) Documentary about this film ... Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.6 (2011) (TV Episode) a clip is shown of one of Gene Siskel's best films of 1978 The Man for the Part (2016) (Short) Clip shown & discussed. The “From the Vault” strand on Roger Ebert’s website this week offers us a really nice episode of Siskel and Ebert from 1978. Frank finds the spoon and sends Max to prison for tests to prove whether he had a fix or not. At The Movies Tribute to Siskel & Ebert (2009) Final show! Harry Dean StantonWilly Darin . . Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Roger and Gene name two relatively off-centre films as their favourites: Siskel picks the wonderful Straight Time; Ebert sides for the now largely overlooked An Unmarried Woman. In the meantime, we watch as Max has his early run-ins with his Los Angeles parole officer, a sadistic, patronizing redneck, marvelously well-played by M. Emmet Walsh, and accept as inevitable his return to life as a holdup man.The film's most surprising and involving sequences are the series of heists that Max carries out, at first solo, then in the company of an old associate, a fellow named Jerry Schue (Harry Dean Stanton), an ex-con, now a paint contractor apparently happily married, who is going out of his mind with the boredom of a settled life that involves a backyard swimming pool and barbecue pit. He knows the world is crooked and he behaves accordingly. It’s the best and worst of the year show. Was this review helpful to you? . But after cracking under pressure from his smartass parole officer (Walsh), whom he leaves handcuffed and pantless on the side of the highway, Max lands on a new streak of criminal schemes, linking up with Stanton for a series of robberies. Sandy BaronSelma Darin . For the record, Roger’s full top ten for that year was as follows: 1. . Frank finds the spoon and sends Max to prison for tests to prove whether he had a fix or not. . ( Log Out /  Theresa RussellJerry Schue . It requires us to fill in the gaps, and it's the measure of the film that we want to. . . Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister. Straight time is a concept used to calculate work week overtime amounts in overtime rules based on the California Overtime and Bi-Conditional Rule - OR (Apply both conditions) templates. Gary Busey plays Hoffman's buddy and husband to Kathy Bates-both excellent. 2 . He simply tries to beat it in his own half-baked way.Max is the sort of fellow who automatically lies when someone asks him how much rent he pays. A history student becomes caught in the middle of a dangerous international plot involving Nazis, stolen jewels, and government agents. Despite the negative result, Frank leaves Max for a week imprisoned. M. Emmet Walsh plays Hoffman's nearly inhumanly sleazy parole officer. Walsh does such a good job here too(I read somewhere that the Coens saw him in this movie and that was what led them to cast him in Blood Simple). . The only time he can look someone in the eye with ease is when he stares, through the slits in a face mask—during a holdup.Max is shrewd, self-absorbed, tough in superficial ways, and doomed. Edward Bunker and Jeffrey Boam, who wrote the screenplay, have succeeded in making an uncommonly interesting film about a fellow whose significance is entirely negative. The success of Jaws and Star Wars really did change the way studios thought. . Straight time is equal to the task hours an employee is expected to work in a day. This film has been rated R.Max Dembo . Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. . . Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Max dates Jenny and on the next day after hours, he finds Frank waiting for him snooping around his room. Looking for something to watch? It simply says that this is the way he is. Plus ca change. . . Ulu Grosbard - 1978 - US ever wonder what Kathy Bates looked like as a younger actress? (Bunker, who passed away in 2005 at age 71, is probably best remembered for his role as Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.) Log in; WordPress.org; Recent Posts. His performance is right on the money as always. 79. Hooray! Roger and Gene name two relatively off-centre films …. It is so cool it would leave a chill were it not done with such precision and control that we remain fascinated by a rat, in spite of ourselves. Well, you can’t have everything. This is such a great film. 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December 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. . Ulu Grosbard – 1978 – US. . Straight Time To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.

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