Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murray's Flurries...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. To Shakespeare, Hamlet's university friends were nothing but functionaries, but to British Playwright Tom Stoppard, they are pawns in a weighted chess match -for which they cannot even decipher the rules. Brian Murray, John Wood and Paul Hecht provide spirited, sophisticated acting...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Shakespeare's duo may have been swinging students on the Wittenberg campus, but when Tom Stoppard tosses them into the midst of the intrigants of Elsinore, they seem two poor sophomores being hazed by a malevolent fraternity. The skillful dramatic interplay between Brian Murray and John Wood provokes laughter even as it evokes compassion...
...Francis Ford Coppola (You're a Big Boy Now), who graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1967. That kind of instant success is the exception. The rule is instant obscurity. A case in point is Marty Scorsese, 25, an N.Y.U. film-school graduate whose It's Not Just You, Murray won a first prize at the 1965 student festival-and might just well be the best university movie ever made. A 14-minute comic synopsis of low-class urban life that is vaguely reminiscent of Fellini's work, Murray is the picaresque tale of a vulpine conman who rises...
...Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...