Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...
...Channel are awash in his nobility. Director Ralph Thomas leaps like a mountain goat from peak to peak: Lucie's love for Charles Darnay, the revolutionary mobs swarming in the streets of Paris, and finally Sydney Carton's self-sacrificing death to save Darnay. But inevitably the film must miss many of the deeper shadows between the peaks...
Students organized a drama group which presented a fair Antigone (Anouilh) and an excellent No Exit (Sartre), both highlights of the School's artistic program, along with an outstanding concert by Schmidt's Summer School Chorus, which made a film for television on the problems of training a chorus. Despite few rehearsals, Schmidt's dynamic direction produced a stirring program...
Certain vital parts of the book cannot, unfortunately, be put on film, and this is a major fault. Hemingway's crude but effective metaphysics are mostly neglected, and when inserted artificially in the last scene ("You go. And when you go I will go with you. Because I am you.") become more a source of amusement than anything else...
Although Hemingway's characters are there, Hemingway seems generaly missing; but this is perhaps an insurmountable hurdle in making a book into a film. In any event it was adequately done, and Miss Bergman is at any time worth the price of admission...