Word: bronsonism
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...which is about to leave the Sack 57 any minute, has very little in common with its predecessor. The original French Connection was made by that slickest of American directors, William Friedkin, and it was seductive stuff. It helped demonstrate, like Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, that Charles Bronson--like punch-'em-up movies, seemingly innocent if a bit violent, could be fascist. All they needed was a good director, and it was enough to scare you silly--not what happened on screen, but the way you were responding. These pictures didn't necessarily bring out the stormtrooper...
...married people who work together complain about spending so much time together," notes Charles Bronson, who is now making his fourth movie in 14 months with Wife Jill Ireland. "But Jill and I still don't seem to have enough time with each other...
...Bronson's new film, From Noon to Three, shows the sullen superstar as a western bank robber and Ireland as a fetching widow. The script calls for some heavy breathing in the clinches, but apparently not enough to suit the husband-wife team. Complains Bronson: "Sometimes a whole day passes on the set before we can get a few moments to talk about something intimate...
...Film Festival, currently showing at the Orson Welles, comes to Cambridge at some theater or other every year, and it's so respectable you can hardly stand it--Sergman, Truffout, and on and on. It gets boring after a while--you want to go take in a good Charles Bronson Hick. But there's one thing on the Janus bill that's worth a thousand copies of Film Quarterly: the Renoir double bill of The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion. When people talk Citizen Kane, and Potemkin, Birth of a Nation and The Seven Samural, if they...
BREAKOUT is the seasonal visit from Charles Bronson, this time more expansive than usual as a Texas border rat who is hired to bust Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison. This caper-based on fact-also has the distinction of having inspired a real-life jailbreak in Michigan two weeks ago. Life is not always scrupulous about imitating art, however. The real convicts got caught...