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...Academy also spurned a movie that was at least as good as most of the nominees and left the others in the tinseled dust--John Huston's The Dead. This exclusion is utterly perplexing since there is almost invariably one bid for sympathy. After giving Oscars to Henry Fonda and Paul Newman more for distinguished careers than for dubious performances in their nominated roles, and after honoring Marlee Matlin with the best of intentions for what was an adequate performance, John Huston would seem to be an irresistible choice. A posthumous award to a beloved director directing his daughter seems...
...keep in mind that a lot of talented, even brilliant movie directors have occasionally made terrible musicals. Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart went over like one from hell. And John Huston's Annie doesn't deserve to see tomorrow...
When the celebration of Epiphany gives way to the Joycean epiphany of Gabriel's concluding thoughts, Huston yields the screen to his beloved master in a wonderfully self-effacing way. The powerful words are voiced over the simplest imaginable montage of Irish snowscapes. Huston's great contribution is only this: he gently imparted to his film an old man's tolerance for human frailty, thereby tempering a young man's impatience with...
...quite enough. With this graceful Dead, Huston served his source generously and himself handsomely, contriving what few in film have managed: a sublimely moving exit...
Director John Huston goes out in style with a simple, masterly adaptation of James Joyce' s The Dead. -- The year' s finest films...