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This strange experiment in filmed conversation finds three people--a physicist, a poet, a politician--yammering about the environment, science, art, government, and much else, all in an effort either to find or to dispute connections between disparate subjects. There is no story, as such--just lots of chatter (much of it not particularly profound) shot against a variety of picturesque backgrounds. ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes
Directed By: Bernt Amadeus Capra

Walter Matthau is in peak form in Hopscotch, a featherweight spy-game comedy in which he plays a CIA agent who's way smarter than his dimwitted superiors. That's the fantasy part--this amusing cat-and-mouse game is so lopsided that you can't take it seriously. The movie's charm is derived from the sardonic pleasure with which Matthau makes his pursuers look like idiots, after they've ...

Manufacturer: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom
Directed By: Ronald Neame

Manufacturer: Congress Video
Starring: Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sam Waterston, Sylvia Sidney, David Huddleston
Directed By: Joan Micklin Silver

Another reliably well-crafted, generally engrossing documentary from Ken Burns, Lewis & Clark employs the director's now-familiar approach to his subjects, from its elegant juxtaposition of period illustrations and portraits against newly filmed footage of historic sites to Burns's repertory of accomplished actors to provide gravitas for quotes from the key figures. Granted the formula has ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, Murphy Guyer, Sam Waterston, Matthew Broderick
Directed By: Ken Burns

Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence yet condemned as a slave owner, Thomas Jefferson has entered a new era of controversy. This penetrating biography first portrays the young Jefferson from the Virginia wilderness, transformed by the philosophic fire of the American Revolution. Torn between his career and family life at Monticello, he suffers heartrending personal loss even as ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Blythe Danner, Ossie Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Potts, Sam Waterston
Directed By: Ken Burns

This harrowing but rewarding 1984 drama concerns the real-life relationship between New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the latter left at the mercy of the Khmer Rouge after Schanberg--who chose to stay after American evacuation but was booted out--failed to get him safe passage. Filmmaker Roland Joffé, previously a documentarist, made ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson
Directed By: Roland Joffé

This adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, puts costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. It's certainly a handsome try, and perhaps no movie could capture The Great Gatsby in its entirety. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson
Directed By: Jack Clayton

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Republic Ent.
Starring: Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston, Lucille Benson, Michael Lerner
Directed By: John Badham

Manufacturer: Thomson Productions
Starring: Matt Dill, Sam Waterston, Susan Anton, Nicolle Cherubini, David Crawford
Directed By: Harvey S. Laidman

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sam Waterston, Sylvia Sidney, David Huddleston
Directed By: Joan Micklin Silver