Word: arkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Poetry always suffers in translation, and Carson McCullers' poetic novel is no exception to the rule. Yet the film has some worthwhile aspects: Alan Arkin's marvelous portrayal of a mute whose silence is deafening, and Sondra Locke as a poignant antiheroine...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. By reverse alchemy, Carson McCullers' novel is turned into dross, but two outstanding performances almost redeem the project: Alan Arkin as a poignant deaf-mute and Cicely Tyson as the embodiment of the slogan "Black is beautiful...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. By reverse alchemy, Carson McCullers' novel is turned into dross, but two outstanding performances almost redeem the project: Alan Arkin as a poignant deaf-mute, and Cicely Tyson as the embodiment of the slogan "Black is Beautiful...
...novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was half poetry, and like most poetry, it suffers in translation. Yet, though much of the sentiment drips into sentimentality, Arkin is triumphant as an Everyman isolated from the humanity he can reach but not touch. With galvanic, Chaplinesque gestures, he makes his inarticulate mouth seem to shout his agonies; when he "talks" to himself, he speaks sign language with a weary, resigned accent that makes his fingers seem to sigh...
...surrounding emotional landscape is alternately barren or soggy, but Arkin's performance gives Heart the systolic beat of life. He is helped by lanky Sondra Locke as a typical McCullers adolescent whose burgeoning body and psyche can neither retreat to childhood nor advance to maturity, and by Tyson, an absolute embodiment of the slogan "Black is beautiful...