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...main ingredients, Neil Simon has boldly blended The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, adding some finely chopped bits from The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. He was shrewd enough to realize that it was not the story lines of his sources that gave them their hold on our affections. Bogart's incisive, ironic characterization of the urban loner, the Hemingwayish dialogue and the film noir look that gave Warner Bros, films their unique quality in the '40s, the forcefulness of the studio's stable of character actors-all of these elements combined to create...
...Goodbar--12, 4:05, 8:15, Story of Adele H.--2:25, 6:30, 10:35. Saturday, Sunday--Annie Hall--1:30, 4:35, 7:50, Sleeper--3:05, 6:10, 9:25. Monday--One Sings, The Other Doesn't, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Tuesday--Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon...
...Bogart fan (and who isn't?) all the goodies, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, etc., will be at the Brattle Cinema as part of their annual Bogart festival. Here's looking...
...count 'em, ten other planned sequels; Medway Productions will make other kinds of films, including a sequel to Lucas' 1973 hit, American Graffiti. Sprocket Systems Inc. will provide special effects for the Star Wars progeny and any other films that need its services, and Black Falcon Ltd. will market books, records, toys and other spin-offs from Lucas' films...
...Maltese Falcon. Don't call it a thesis, but it seems that some of the most talented directors of American films have done their finest work the first time out. I'm thinking especially of Orson Welles and "Citizen Kane" and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart...