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...both abetted and hindered by his director, a new boy named Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon first worked together as fellow actors in Fortune Cookie and consolidated their partnership in The Odd Couple. Lemmon obviously has great affection for his sidekick; in 114 minutes, the star is hardly ever offscreen...
...ARMY WANTS TO JOIN YOU. The prime-time TV spots show hay dropping over snowbound Oklahoma from Army helicopters to save starving cattle, and a salesman touting the "750-h.p., air-cooled, 12-cylinder" wonders of an Army tank, which a youthful customer promptly "buys" and drives proudly offscreen. In the ad Army, no one is asked to kill the implacable foe or save the world for democracy. A fellow could almost gain the impression that fighting...
...hero, Assaf Dayan (Moshe's son) is called upon only to look virile, admittedly a difficult assignment given such smotherhood. As Mama, Melina Mercouri (Mrs. Dassin offscreen) has moments of solar intensity coupled with an absolute lack of vanity. When the script calls for her finally to be ill and old, she permits the makeup man to do his worst and appears pitiable indeed. In its own way, her vital, uninhibited performance is mere makeup, covering the scenario's merchandised nostalgia. There is, of course, the melancholy possibility that the Dassins wished to construct a burlesque. Sadder still...
...Even offscreen, she seems to have been scripted by a nostalgic romanticist. She grew up in New York's Westchester County, amid acres of woods that looked like backdrops for Burne-Jones paintings. Ali lived like one of the foreground figures. "We had rather little money," she recalls. "My parents were artists; for Christmas, my mother used to make me things like a doll's house with chandeliers and wallpaper inside, and dresses for the dolls. In the winter, my brother Dick and I sat in front of the fireplace and talked with my father, surrounded by books. We were...
...Knife. The footage of the murder at the concert eventually appears. "Can you run that for me again?" Jagger is heard asking offscreen, and the film makers are happy to oblige. They not only run it over, they run it in slow motion and freeze frames, while Dave Maysles points out to Jagger (and thus to the audience) all the gruesome details: "There. You can see the gun against the girl's crocheted dress. And there's the knife. Here he comes with the knife." This technique surely succeeds in pinpointing the feeling of desperate horror at Altamont...