Word: clicheed
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Jacques is the paradigm of this idealism without perception. He returns toward the end of the film and proposes marriage to Marie. There is a cliche long-shot of the two of them climbing a hill with the countryside spread out behind, and for the moment it seems as though...
ONE SHOULD, I suppose, be impressed by Goin' Down the Road as a first film. It is extra-ordinarily well-acted by Doug (Peter) McGrath and Paul (Joey) Bradley, carefully photographed and edited-technically proficient. But its director displays an extremely limited intelligence, an interest in people on the most...
IN TERMS of genre, the film bears stronger resemblance to those patriotic T. V. slots, "Profiles in Courage," perhaps, than it does to art. In Cromwell, desire to inculcate "fact" (and I have shown what sort of fact) offers the only plausible motivation for staging, in huge panorama, each of...
Really Hell. His credentials for the post were impeccable. Father: a successful attorney who was named to the federal bench by President Eisenhower. Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, a year's study in Germany as a Fulbright scholar, back to Harvard for law school. Wife: Wellesley. Bartels looks...
IF MARTIN RITT hasn't transformed the dross of The Great White Hope into a good film, at least his jumbling of theatrical convention and film cliche makes it fairly easy to watch. Despite playwright Howard Sackler's screenplay, and his play's prime standing as a Kultcha classic, Ritt...