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...wins at roulete, where Bergnan's arrival earns Sam's state-Peter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot. Conard Veidt, Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michaell Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
...smoky Club American where Clause Rains wins at roulette, where Crande arrival earns Sam's state--Petter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot, Conrad Veidt. Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michael Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
...when first released after World War II, at the BRATTLE THEATER. Thief at 6 and 9:30. City at Bogart is Back, again, at the HARVARD SQUARE THEATER, with Woody Allen's comic homage Play It Agaln Sam at 3:25, 6:10 and 9:40 and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca...
...even the serious theories to be so much drivel. I don't know if I'd call him a "good storyteller" as Pauline Kael did, but that is precisely what he intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz or Roaul Walsh was crude, aiming for direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion, but there is no audience gratification-this though...
...problem goes deeper than Nichols' consistent substitution of trickiness for style. A great director, Rosselini or Hitchcock, plans his film as a totality, understanding instinctively how each shot relates to the film as a whole; a competent director of narrative films like Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) plans shots with relation to the entire scene. Nichols, however, cannot plan past a given shot, and although a frame may contain an effective gimmick, camera angle, or background detail, the scenes themselves are purposeless and disconnected, largely due to awkward and self-conscious editing...