Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sundance in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford plays a cool, sardonic renegade with a deliberate and precise sense of irony. As an eager young skier in Downhill Racer, he smoothly combines naivete and monomaniacal ambition. But his most impressive role is to come. In the new film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here!, he appears as a cold-blooded sheriff and gives his most powerfully sustained performance so far. This is plainly the first of what should be many Robert Redford vintage years...
Woody Allen may well be the funniest man in America. But he is not the funniest writer in America, and between the two titles lies a profound gap. At the bottom of the gap is Don't Drink the Water, the film version of Woody's first stage play...
Many custard pies have been thrown in the face of the silent-movie business, but few as sour as The Comic. If its advertisements are to be believed, the movie is simply a fond lampoon of Hollywood's pride-and-pratfall epoch. As the film unreels, it becomes in fact a furious editorial about a business that treats its veterans like overexposed celluloid...
...Director-Writer Carl Reiner gives Van Dyke almost enough of this plot line to hang himself by strutting and capering in the manner of Mack Sennett's mute screwballs. Such flickering shenanigans are the most comical part of The Comic, but they are also the most derivative. The film gains its validity and poignance when Billy Bright reaches a crossroads and veers to the wrong. Sound movies are bunk, he decides, and abruptly the humor fades to black...
...human being. The rights to the man's own personality! It was easy to get angry after that." It is to Reiner's credit that he was able to propel his anger with so much force. It is to his studio's debit that for the film's first run Reiner was not able to fling it farther than second-run movie houses...