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...Lawless, 1950 Joseph Losey-directed tale of bigotry and conflict between whites and Chicanos in a California border town. MacDonald Carey, Gail Russell...
...ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY Directed by JOSEPH LOSEY Screenplay by NICHOLAS MOSLEY
...Losey and Mosley take some pains to hew closely to the known facts of what the scenarist calls "one of the most documented murders in history." Jacson, for example, did have a girl friend who visited Trotsky and sometimes assisted him with secretarial work. Although the real Jacson never admitted to any motive for the murder, he is widely believed to have been a Stalinist agent. In the film, however, Losey makes a sonorous attempt to turn the murder into an oblique existential tract and the assassin into a schizoid avenging angel. Like characters in such previous and more estimable...
...film is also maundering, as if taking its tone from Burton's characterization. To suggest the violence and turmoil of revolution, Losey relies on the murals of Rivera and Orozco, to which he dollies in at all too frequent intervals. Rather than heightening the sense of political turbulence, however, this deadens it, lending The Assassination of Trotsky the faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images...
City Lights, another Chaplin classic (the one with the fight scene). Also, The Go-Between, Losey-Printer decadence again but this time there's a story and some good acting. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. City: 3, 6:25, 9:55, Go-Between...