Word: filming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belong to the generation of Hungarian film directors for whom it was perhaps the hardest to find the way to an artistic self-expression." So admits Miklos Jancso, one of the oldest and youngest film makers in Hungary. Old, because at 47 he is a political aeon away from the newly defiant East European youth. Young, because his reputation is only now emerging from the guarded borders of his homeland...
...content (or disturbed) with a vision trained on people but not on persons. Though Jancso is sometimes eclectic, he borrows only from the best, from the wintry compositions of Ingmar Bergman or from Goya's acid Disasters of War. At his most original, the director resembles neither film maker nor painter. In his own deep-dimensioned, black and white montages, he seems a sculptor who scrapes his material from the soil of his native land and gives it a cast of permanence...
...conventional standards, such exhaust-pipe theatrics should have been made into an equally predictable film. The result, called Run, Angel, Run, is, however, something more than fodder for the teeny-bopper drive-in trade. For all that is patently naive and even painful to watch, there are occasional scenes, such as a dinner-table argument and a tense ride with some hobos on a fast freight, that have a kind of tough virtue...
Director Jack Starrett and Cinematographer John Stephens pad out their film with lots of repetitive footage of the Advocates barreling up the California coast, but they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will...
...Gunfighter might have been as good as its actors. As bone-weary Marshal Frank Patch, Richard Widmark is as legitimate and leathery as a saddle. His mistress (Lena Horne) cannot make a move or a speech that is not correct or elegant; her appearance in this symbol-minded film sadly recalls a 13-year absence from Hollywood. Like the High Lama in Lost Horizon, Widmark and Horne seem at once endlessly old and miraculously preserved, as if they were waiting for a revelation. Death of a Gunfighter is not it. In a town settling into the 20th century, stallions...