Looking Back to the Sixties

It is billed, by its own production company, as a “warm and comic exploration of the rapidly changing world of a group of friends working on a small weekly newspaper.” And certainly it is this softness that accounts for its audience appeal. But Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines is far more than a 1970s gang-spirit picture. A worthy successor to her Hester Street, it is the best film we have had so far on what happened to the college radicals of the 1960s.

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