Excerpt: Network has released Louis Malle's ode to ageing small-time gangsters in R2. The Burt Lancaster-Susan Sarandon film is given a reappraisal by clydefro. Review: Louis Malle's Atlantic City is a small film with quiet expectations. It's not particularly lengthy or overly ambitious. Excited screams don't emanate from the picture. The fact that it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and individual nods for Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Malle, and screenwriter John Guare, seems remarkable. That it was up against Chariots of Fire, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Reds is closer to absurd. After being completed in the waning days of 1979, with studio work done in Montreal because of tax incentives, the film was shelved by Paramount until a Venice Film Festival win gained some notice. A...
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