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...Vigo and Eisenstein knew this. Anderson and Kubrick don't. When deliberately artificial means find their way into the telling of a film story which is rooted in veristic detail (as in lesser New Wave films, or those by such American ex-TV directors as John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet), the result is chaos. The film medium, integrating elements of every art, encourages mere thrill-seekers and poetic poseurs. The real challenge is to create an artificial framework sufficiently analogous to the hard reality in which its creator lives to make a philosophic statement artfully: or, as is my bias...
...caper picture, The Anderson Tapes displays a slick criminal shrewdness: its paraphernalia and plans are always chillingly plausible. Had the film restricted itself to its own Rififiefdom, it would have remained as airtight as a legit alibi. But Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never shown a scintilla of genuine wit, aims for nothing less than political satire. Since Duke's parole, it seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed...
...comic attempts end there. Sometimes Lumet attempts to send up other movies: a one-sided encounter between Angelo and his paralyzed father is an inept parody of Jack Nicholson's monologue in Five Easy Pieces. The film also mercilessly mocks a homosexual antiques dealer, with Martin Balsam, as they say in Hollywood, "cast against the part...
...want, and instead went to nearby Westlake and to school in Switzerland and eventually to the University of Pennsylvania. College social life bored her (she neither smokes nor drinks), and she spent much of her extracurricular time modeling in New York. Eventually she caught the eye of Director Sidney Lumet, who was casting the film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group...
...allow friends who were interested to gather at their apartment to hear the Panthers' case. It was not exactly a jury of the Panthers' peers, however. Among the guests were such social notables as the Peter Duchins, Heiress Cynthia Phipps, Mrs. August Heckscher and Mrs. Sidney Lumet...