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...FIXER. "I'm the kind of man who finds it perilous just to be alive," says the reluctant hero of this grueling and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's novel. Under the meticulous direction of John Frankenheimer, the cast performs with a power that gives the film an almost Dostoevskian force...
...FIXER. A generally faithful and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer prizewinning novel about the passion of a modern Job. Under the careful and inventive direction of John Frankenheimer, the cast-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holme-bring to the film a moral force reminiscent of Dostoevsky...
...FIXER. A generally faithful and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prizewinning novel about the passion of a modern Job. Under the careful and inventive direction of John Frankenheimer, the cast-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm-bring to the film a moral force reminiscent of Dostoevsky...
...finished Bullet Park, a chronicle of fathers and sons and the communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming and plotting on the part of the prize jury (TIME...
...FIXER is a relentless parable of a modern Job, based on Bernard Malamud's prize-winning novel. Under the inventive and often brilliant direction of John Frankenheimer, the actors-especially Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde-bring to the film a truly Dostoevskian resonance and moral force...