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...Sleep, playing this week at the Brattle, is one of the most confusing detective movies you'd ever hope to see. Humphrey Bogart stars as Philip Marlow, the ubiquitous private eye created by novelist Raymond Chandler and recreated by many an actor--though none so well as Bogart himself. Howard Hawks made this film in 1946, Betty Bacall and Dorothy Malone costar. William Faulkner took Chandler's novel, cleaned it up a bit and made its story even more obscure, and turned it into a screenplay. The L.A. shots are pretty good...
...skill that each role seems founded on some spontaneous intuition. It is his talent and pleasure never to let all the preparation and all the work he does for each role show. Nicholson shares that knack for apparently effortless deception with the very best screen actors. As Humphrey Bogart once said of Spencer Tracy, "He is so good because you don't see the mechanism working...
Casablanca is arguably the best piece of movie romance ever to work its way onto the silver screen. It's all there: love and war, heroes and villians, sentiment and more sentiment. If that's not enough there's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. And if that's still not enough there's the most touching line in all of movie history: "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Bogart reportedly picked the movie's ending because it made his mother cry. If it doesn't do the same...
...Have and Have Not, beginning its run on Wednesday, is the first blast in the Brattle's famed month-long festival of Bogart's best. Howard Hawks made this with Bogie and Becall in 1944, using William Faulkner's screenplay of a Hemingway novel. If that line-up isn't strong enough for you, you must be a mouse with a glandular condition. The film's plot--a vaguely confusing story about gun-running--is mildly compelling and tangentially political. This is the confrontation between the matured Bogie and the teen-aged Lauren Bacall. She's just as tough-assed...
...African Queen, playing for a week at the Orson Welles starting tomorrow, is the most complete movie Bogart ever made, and the movie in which his talents as an actor are most evident. He won his only academy award for this, and he deserved it. But if Bogart is good in African Queen, Katherine Hepburn is great; together they are dynamite...