Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establishes the tone of the whole film. Playing a kind of hipster-hood-hero, Brando can chill the blood with a smile or describe dimensions with a move of his hand. Since he provided the driving force behind One-Eyed Jacks, of which he was both star and director in 1961, Brando has essayed a series of character roles in a succession of failures: a brooding cowpoke in The Appaloosa, a self-righteous sheriff in The Chase, a cagey con-man in Bedtime Story. Once again in a film good enough to match his talents, he demonstrates conclusively in Night...
...People are always afraid of bad taste," says French Writer-Director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Demy certainly isn't. He sprinkles it like contaminated pixy dust over little film fairy tales. The Model Shop, Demy's first film made in the U.S., continues along in the same airy tradition...
Moviegoers who have seen Jacques Demy's The Model Shop may also be curious about a picture by his wife, who is a director too. She is known professionally as Agnès Varda, and at first glance her work and her husband's seem totally different. While he conjures up pastel never-never lands, she broods over such weighty matters as morality, predestination and the nature of reality. But husband and wife do have in com-BOULAT mon two uncommon traits: the ability to reduce everything to playground platitudes and a stylistic pomposity that serves only...
...series, Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett, erased any doubts this viewer might have had about Wood's ability. Krapp is the only character in the play, making it difficult to determine how much of the credit for its success belongs to Woods and how much to his director, Judith Ebenstein. But there were several pieces of brilliant improvisation that clearly established his claim to a lion's share...
...rate, he certainly doesn't aim Shame at our minds, but instead succeeds in an overall effect. Making a non-intellectual film he has at last fused his talents as writer and director, and simultaneously bridged the space between his screen and his audience. Still, many of the devices he uses are vintage Bergman. Gaunt Max von Sydow, for example, plays the archteypal Bergman male--weak and childish, incapable of even killing a hen for supper, leaning on Liv Ullman, his strong loving wife (much like Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck in a happier film, Smiles of a Summer Night...