Word: novels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY. James Leo Herlihy's novel about the unlikely friendship of a Texas drifter and a Bronx loner has been transformed by Director John Schlesinger (Darling) into a portrait of nighttown America that is notable for the acting of Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Love is literally blind in this black comedy about a wealthy Englishman (Nicol Williamson) who becomes obsessed with a lascivious movie usherette (Anna Karina). Williamson gives a strong performance as a weak man. The script-from Vladimir Nabokov's novel-is intelligent, and Tony Richardson's direction is undoubtedly his best since The Entertainer...
WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I THINK, by L. Woiwode. A young couple, expecting a baby, embarks on a seemingly idyllic honeymoon in the Michigan woods and discovers terrors in paradise. A remarkable first novel...
Translations have killed more classics than censorship. The Boys of Paul Street, by Ferenc Molnar, is a favorite throughout Europe, but the awkward English version has kept it unreadable in the U.S. for nearly half a century. This film of the 1927 novel belatedly corrects the neglect with a careful, correct adaptation...
...evidence given in the novel, this judgment of mankind is accurate. The book's human beings- except for a few dolphinlike characters necessary to the plot-are consistently sub-cetaceous in intelligence, honor, aquatic ability and sexual inventiveness. The dolphins are tiptop in every department, as Robert Merle, a French writer of some past distinction, is at pains to demonstrate, taking the departments one by one. In fact, in the very long sections of the book justly given over to praise for the dolphins' character and accomplishments, only two bits of dolphin lore escape specific mention. The first...