Movies

February, 1984

Too Bad the producers of Gorky Park (Orion) were not permitted to shoot Martin Cruz Smith's exhilarating best seller in Moscow. As a substitute, Helsinki in winter serves very well, and the novel is well served on all counts in Dennis Potter's brisk adaptation, directed by Michael Apted with cinematographer Ralf Bode as his inventive collaborator (the two also did fine work together on Coal Miner's Daughter). While anyone who has read the book may be slower to take the hook than I was, I am work...