Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I am very pleased with the review of the Casals film would be putting it mildly. I suddenly realize that the "source" of this film-river was TIME, Jan. 30, 1950, which carried not only a glowing review of The Titan under CINEMA, but also a brilliant account in the Music section called "The Exile of Prades." This piece ended with a quote from Casals, ". . .someone must remember," and I was made to remember. I quickly wrote a treatment for a documentary feature film on Casals, but it never came off. In the course of promoting...
...Young Stranger is a modest film that tells a small story, but it might well be used as an example of what a good motion picture should be. With restraint and intelligence and great skill, the makers of this film lay bare the relationship between three people: a successful Hollywood producer, his wife, and his teen-age son. The plot focuses on the boy, who gets into trouble with the police by--justifiably--hitting a movie theatre manager. But this is not, and does not pretend to be, another of those romanticised pseudo-Freudian essays on the causes of juvenile...
...complete lack of false histrionics and general restraint belongs to director Frankenheimer. He is content to tell his story simply, without trying to make it a world-shaking catastrophe. The good taste of everybody concerned with the production is further evident in a happy use of black-and-white film and a regular screen. As a result, The Young Stranger emerges as one of the few wholly satisfactory American films in quite a long time...
...evening concluded with a showing of a film, smuggled out of Hungary, containing pictures of the demonstrations on Oct. 23, the subsequent fighting, and the Russian intervention...
...film's completion, one cannot help but feel that the story was largely a vehicle for sex, and certainly every character, in his or her own way, fairly radiates sex appeal. Each actor does his job well, but each one, regrettably, does it too often...