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...year audiences had better duck and hold their ears because just about every conflict but the War of Jenkins' Ear will be playing at the neighborhoods. Leading the attack is Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Viet Nam War itself. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse is about a mad Green Beret commander, played by Marlon Brando, who wages his own war in a remote Vietnamese province. Shooting in the jungles of the Philippines has been rather hellish for the cast-which also includes Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen...
...FAMILY ARSENAL by Paul Theroux. Shades of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene hover about this tale of inept terrorists trying to play house in London...
...Cyrano even had to leave the idyl to attend the dissolution of his failed business.) About himself and his class of sailing friends, Buckley writes: "We never fancied ourselves as 'everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Rather as a different generation of 'successors,' anticipated by Joseph Conrad as 'the grown-up children of a discontented earth...
...brilliance, possibly genius. There are, in fact, marvelously unmodified capsule comments on her reading. She devoured Crime and Punishment on her honeymoon, lying on a sofa nibbling chocolates, and she kept reading and judging-nonstop, it seemed-happily ever after. While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible...
Sabotage (1936) is by far the best of the lesser known British Hitchcocks--those which are shown less frequently than the 39 Steps or The Lady Vanishes. Sabotage Is Hitchcock's version of Conrad's The Secret Agent (not to be confused with Hitchcock's The Secret Agent, which in fact has nothing to do with the Conrad novel, as well as being a bomb to be avoided at all costs despite the claim that it is Hitchcock's favorite of his British films, oft-repeated in unscrupulous advertising.) Sabotage must also be distinguished from Saboteur, an American film Hitchcock...