Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIREMEN'S BALL. Director Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a frothy, funny parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy from a slight anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief...
COOGAN'S BLUFF. French him critics have long hailed Director Don Siegel as a minor genius, and this film is ample proof that his reputation is no Gallic caprice. With measured professionalism, Siegel tells the story of an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who travels to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...terror of tragedy are alien to his impish nature. He has an irresistible urge to inject modernity into a classic through props, stage tricks and character stunts rather than to extract what is timelessly significant in the play. He is more like an M.C. introducing novelty acts than a director exploring drama. All of these traits mar his direction of the Minnesota Theater Company's The House of Atreus. The production is ambitious in intent but puny in passion, execution and depth...
...twin evils: the baron and the score. Written by Robert and Richard Sherman (Mary Poppins), the eleven songs have all the rich melodic variety of an automobile horn. Persistent syncopation and some breathless choreography partly redeem it, but most of the film's sporadic success is due to Director Ken Hughes's fantasy scenes, which make up in imagination what they lack in technical facility. Next to Tiny Tim's hallowed remark, the holiday season's most overworked phrase is "What can we take the children...
Having failed at titillation, the movie tries an onslaught of vulgarity. As if he had personally discovered the phallic symbol, Director Christian Marquand presents a parade of hydrants, fingers, pointers and thermometers. Then-he backs Candy up against a urinal, down on a toilet seat and up above a blood-soaked operating amphitheater. Yet with all his excesses, Marquand is a figure of refinement compared with Scenarist Buck Henry (The Graduate), whose idea of humor is an aside to the heroine: "Why don't you put a meter on it and we'll all get rich...