Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knack is a perfect summertime film, a celluloid gin and tonic -- bright, sparkling, mildly intoxicating, and not-at-all a serious people's film (although it may break up the stodgy old bag downstairs...
...KNACK. There is more than enough running, jumping and New Cinema gimmickry in this movie version of the New York-London stage success, but the sight gags are often hilarious and so is Rita Tushingham as the girl pursued by three oddball British bachelors...
...KNACK. There is more than enough running, jumping and New Cinema gimmickry in this movie version of the New York-London stage success, but the sight gags are often funny and so is Rita Tushingham as the girl pursued by three oddball British bachelors...
Director Richard Lester, who caught the quintessence of Beatlemania in A Hard Day's Night, sails into The Knack with the same bare-knuckled boldness but less satisfying results. The movie is always inventive and often hilarious, for Lester is not a man to let substance interfere with a sight gag. On film, the characters racket hither and yon in the fashionable New Cinema manner, but they rarely seem insecure, subtly tyrannized by their own drives, or even significantly related to one another...
...midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael Crawford, in his moments with her, ever truly possess The Knack...