Word: confessionally
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> The court that convicted Lieut. William Galley last week also made an unprecedented demand for some 60 hours of taped conversation between Galley and Writer John Sack, whose as-told-to stories are appearing in Esquire under the title "The Confessions of Lieutenant Galley." It was the first time a...
UNTIL Little Murders, the great American sound comedies had always been nihilistic, disrespectful of traditional film genres, but severely handicapped by their own uneasiness in scoring thematic points. It is hard to take even films as distinguished as Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux or Huston's Beat the Devil as little...
If there is a major fault in the book, it is the ending, which limps. But Buechner recognizes this, for he begins his last chapter with a quasi-confession of the fact. But this does not make the book any less worthwhile. Read it for fun, read it as a...
Confession has enough individual merits to redeem its overall flaws. Though their film lacks the compact literacy of The Prisoner, Costa-Gavras and his Z squad (Screenwriter Jorge Semprun and Director of Photography Raoul Coutard) are too subtle and ingenious to make anything conspicuously bad. The brutal indifference of lower...
The problem is that Gerard is only as lifelike as Montand makes him; his wife (played by Simone Signoret, Montand's real-life wife) is relegated to the unhappy role of two-dimensional superfluity. Indeed, Costa-Gavras' style is to present characters as metaphors for life forces, rather...