Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DOUGLAS SIRK'S second American film (1944) shows his art already at a high level of complexity and accomplishment. This art depends on an understanding, perhaps truer than any other director's, of why people act as they do. Recognizing the limitations on any man's ability to express and realize himself in his surroundings, Sirk shows how men come to know themselves by being confronted with constant evidence of these limitations...
Duncan's first love affair was with Stage Designer Gordon Craig, whose electric presence is dimmed in the film to about 40 watts by James Fox. Her most celebrated amour was Paris Singer (Jason Robards), the sewing-machine heir. Singer's idea of a bauble was a ten-diamond pendant; Robards' idea of acting is to bark his love scenes tersely, as if ordering a gross of No. 11 needles. Isadora had a child by each of her lovers; both children died in an absurd and macabre automobile accident in France. From then...
Before Winter Comes is a film to be remembered-rather than seen. It has a vague plot, conventional camerawork and a feeble scenario. But it also serves as the major debut of a major performer: Israeli Actor Topol...
...provides the picture's sporadic suspense and tragic finale. With an indefinable accent, Topol handles the script's half-aphorisms with more panache than they deserve ("It is easier to know ten lands than one man"). His hypnotic combination of shy manner and sly authority steals the film from Niven-a feat comparable to picking Dillinger's pocket...
...Chaim Topol began his show-business career as a barracks clown in the Israeli army. His performances became such a morale factor that headquarters ordered him to be an actor. He has been following those orders ever since. Topol's most important future role is Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof...