Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third Man. One of those films, like Casablanca, where every word and every scene seem just right, and memorable. Nearly perfect. A Touch of Evil, playing with it, isn't half-bad either...
Marriage Revealed. Sean Connery, 44, Superspy James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, Goldfinger and four other 007 fantasies; and Micheline Roquebrune, 39, a Tunisian-born French matron; in Casablanca, two months ago; he for the second time, she for the third...
Murder on the Orient Express is, self-consciously, the kind of high quality all-star film that was made in the thirties and forties. It aims for the elegant, epigrammatic quality of films like Casablanca, where even the cameos are memorable and throwaway lines seem pregnant with mysterious meaning. Everyone who says anything in Murder on the Orient Express is a distinguished, if not a great, actor or actress. It's silly, but a lot of fun, to have an actress like Ingrid Bergman playing a Scandanavian nanny who "was born backwards" and has visions of "little brown babies...
...over, some years it must forego the juiciest operas and stick with the second-rate. But The Mikado (even if it's not quite as good as Patience) is the traditional favorite, the old chestnut by which the rest are judged. Its production is like Hamlet at Stratford or Casablanca at the Brattle Square. This Mikado, though, is hardly a high point among recent G & S productions at Harvard--it's not painfully disappointing, but it lacks exuberance and never extracts the full humor of Gilbert's funniest script or the full possibilities of Sullivan's most ingratiating score...
...Brattle began its reading period Bogie festival last week and now To Have Or Have Not is on the bill. To avoid the most frustrating kind of rip-off, check out what the print is like from someone before you see the picture. Judging from the Brattle's Casablanca last week, your favorite lines are liable to be garbled and flashed out. They really shouldn't show mutilated movies...