Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Square Theater--Friday, Casablanca, 1, 4:30, 8:05; The Maltese Falcon, 2:45, 6:15, 9:50; Saturday, Sunday, The Goodbye Girl, 1, 4:30, 8:05; Prisoner of Second Avenue, 2:55, 6:25, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight shows, The Man Who Fell to Earth...
...Cheap Detective--Neil Simon keeps those pots boiling with another patently bogus ploy to unite famous detectives and get them to satirize themselves. Peter Falk is no Bogey, however, and nobody else is who he is supposed to be either. The plot is some clone of the Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and whatever else. Puffed up with hocks and the usual empty calories that Neil Simon spoons out so handily this might better have been titled The Big Turkey or The Maltese Sleep. Go see the originals...
...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...