Word: arkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Mike Nichols film is Catch 22, an adaptation of Joseph Heller's apocalyptic novel. But how could anyone ever transfer the lunacy of Major Major Major Major, Yossarian, Colonel Cathcart and the Watergate figure of all time, Milo Minderbinder to the screen? Nichols tries, and fails. With Alan Arkin...
...says Actor Nicol Williamson, talking about Sherlock Holmes, whom he plays in the forthcoming movie version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. In the film, based on Nicholas Meyer's novel, the tweedy sleuth travels to Vienna and collaborates with - who else? - Sigmund Freud, portrayed by Alan Arkin. It's almost too good to be true, says Arkin. "I didn't know that after seven years in analysis, you get to play Freud...
...buoyant faith in the happy ending. Lewis, the dumb but ingratiating innocent, is treated with the sort of subdued affection that never becomes condescending. The movie is well served too by an engaging Jeff Bridges and an altogether nifty cast of freshly minted characters, among whom Alan Arkin may be observed in full and wondrous cry. Arkin appears as an unctuous, anxious director named Kessler, a creation of devastating sardonic accuracy. His directions to his cowboy extras, delivered in a tone of hollow camaraderie, are depressingly, hilariously on the mark...
...keep it simple but make me believe it." Arkin about steals the movie out from under everybody else...
...priced. The men regard this proposal as scandalous, although their own pet projects are as bad or worse. One member fulminates that if God had wanted a permissive society, "he would have given Moses ten suggestions instead of ten command ments." Ably abetted by the antic direction of Alan Arkin, Rubbers is a zany caricature of mandated imbecility. As Brooklyn's gift to liberated womanhood, Laura Esterman is roguishly supple in alternating the abrasiveness of Bella Abzug with the dimpled wiles...