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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...

Author: By H. MICHAEL Levenson, | Title: Films Au Hasard Balthazar at the Orson Welles | 4/29/1971 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Shoestring Humanism | 1/15/1971 | See Source »

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...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: Films Cromwell at the Pi Alley Theatre | 1/13/1971 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Bartels of New Jersey | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Ersatz Ethos The Great White Hope opening Dec. 21 at the Music Hall | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

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