Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CENTRAL CINEMA II. A Sense of Loss, 5:30, 9:40, Shake Hands with the Devil...
CENTRAL CINEMA I. King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45, Wknd mat 3:10. Devil by the TAil, 8:15, Wknd...
Shake Hands With the Devil. Imagine James Cagney in the unlikely role of a professor at the College of Surgeons who doubles as a leader in the Irish Revolution. That's only a minor problem for this film. The dialogue, the direction, and the gratuitous sexual innuendo all work hard to negate the intrinsic historical interest of the period. It's a tough fight...
...DEVIL TREE by JERZY KOSINSKI 208 pages. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich...
...futile. The Painted Bird follows the frightful journey of a small boy as he stumbles through war-torn Poland searching for his parents, while Steps observes a refugee's nightmarish encounters with America. A reader trying to account for the disparity between those books and The Devil Tree is driven to the not entirely convincing conclusion that Kosinski, who is a Pole, has strayed too far from his artistic roots. -John Skow