Movies

September, 1981

There's more excitement in the first ten minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark (Paramount) than in any movie I have seen all year. Here, the quest is for the longlost ark of the covenant, a holier-than-holy object containing the original Ten Commandments and Lord knows what else.Screened too late for a timelier review, Raiders by now should be established as one of themajor cinematic events of summer 1981. Steven Spielberg directed from Lawrence Kasdan's crackling screenplay (story by George Lucas...