Movies

October, 1982

The first half hour of Alan Parker's Pink Floyd The Wall (MGM/UA) is pure razzle-dazzle and feels just right. From the director of Midnight Express, with a screenplay by Roger Waters based on the original Pink Floyd album, what do you expect but reefer madness? Here's a movie to get high by, and the screening I attended was redolent of a long-gone cinema gimmick called Smell-O-Vision; you could see it, hear it and inhale it. Parker and Waters abhor a conventional story line. They all but do away...