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...Hustler, Friday and Saturday, March...
There's a phenomenal selection of films in Cambridge this week. They're biggies--kind of an equivalent to what classical music types call warhorses--including Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, a great movie that critics have built up too much; The Hustler, which seems better and better ("This is Ames, Mister"..."Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney...
MacDaddy, which is the season's first production by Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company, is a free-form, episodic jour ney through black people's time. It ranges across 20th century America, criss crossing decades. MacDaddy (David Downing) begins as a sort of hustler-prince, a Prohibition vintner on the trail of his vanished friend Wine, who represents a lost magic, the secret of the race. A funky and inventive Candide, MacDaddy travels through peckerwood racism, black venality, Tomism and the death's-head enemy, heroin...
James Bollinger, a local hustler, gambler and gun fancier, went to Mayor George Thomas and the village board and offered to run Latham out of town...
...Hustler. 1961. Incomparable. Robert Rossen's peerless study of backroom pool-hall life features surpassing performances by Paul Newman as Fast Eddy Felson, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, and George C. Scott and Piper Laurie as the sharks' supporters...