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Mitchell K. Ross '78, another Hillel member, said yesterday the series has "a lot of educational value," although it is "hard to depict on a television screen what that world was like...
...Storyville's glory days. This couple's bizarre March-December affair, like the equally promising relationship between Violet and her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon), is described only intermittently. Instead of coming to terms with the characters' emotions, Malle dithers away his movie on rowdy sequences that depict the upstairs-downstairs antics of his oldtime sporting-house setting. Despite Sven Nykvist's fine cinematography and a rousing jazz score, a little of the film's nostalgic atmosphere goes a long way. Padding, however lush, is still padding...
...Mexico settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...
...depict Dixy Lee Ray as a charming, inoffensive goldfinch is singularly inappropriate. A better choice would have been a grizzly bear-and with a sore...
...details from Reilly's life are somewhat glossed over or romanticized in Connery's book. Connery gives an explicitly detailed account of his mother's bizarre lifestyle, but he gives Reilly, in cases, more credit than he actually deserved, by failing to back up illogical claims. Connery tried to depict Reilly as exceptionally intelligent, when he apparently was not. Reilly had so little self-confidence that the police easily brainwashed him into confessing. Connery glosses over this tragic weakness in Reilly's character...