Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweet, bitter, salty and sour in François Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idée fixe. Jeanne Moreau is the woman with the idée, and the men who killed her husband are the ones who get fixed in a series of alternately comic and eerie murders...
...there are disadvantages to being Alan Arkin, the submersible actor. Without a dominant personality that remains a constant in each performance, he is the victim as well as the beneficiary of his material. In his two most recent films, his vast comic abilities tick away in a bomb that never goes off, and his gift for pathos and poignancy soars so far above the surrounding melodrama that the film becomes virtually a one-man show...
...comic promise and beginning of a vapid farce of mistaken-identity crises. Morse's co-star is Doris Day, playing a pulpy, gulpy Broadway actress named Margaret Garrison, whose bed he blunders into by mistake. To disarm audiences-and possibly critics-she sometimes refers to herself as the Constant Virgin, a sobriquet Doris has actually earned in half a dozen previous films, pursued by the likes of Gary Grant and Rock Hudson but remaining a freckle-faced iron maiden to the fadeout. In this picture, she is equipped with a husband (Patrick O'Neal), but by pouting continually...
PETULIA. Set in San Francisco, Richard Lester's film covers the contemporary scene and dissects the way men and women treat each other through the cruel, comic story of the relationship, or lack of it, between a kook (Julie Christie) and a surgeon (George C. Scott) who care that they couldn't care less...
...most amusing and terrifying character. A high-voltage action-intellectual wired into the highest power sources, he has written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news to you, Edsel baby, but thrift went out with Little Orphan Annie and her anal-retentive boxtops...