Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers, with camera and sound equipment in hand, spent six weeks tracking a group of New England Bible salesmen on their weary rounds. The result is a searing, melancholy and not wholly unsympathetic portrait of what the Maysles call "one part of the American dream...
...room sat a handsome old black man in a mason's uniform. Behind him was a cloth-covered casket, surrounded by gay wreaths of flowers. One wreath was in the shape of a clarinet. Another was a mason's insignia. Above the casket was a stained-glass portrait of Jesus, lit from behind. I went up to the casket and looked down. There was a small black man inside it in a mason's uniform. it was George Lewis...
...FIXER. An adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer prizewinning novel that is faithful to the original in its impassioned portrait of the dignity of individual man. John Frankenheimer directs with taste, and the actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm-are transcendent in their roles...
...easy to spot most of the other pieces possibly misattributed to Daumier. You see that the dramatic self-portrait bust doesn't look like anything else he did. According to the catalogue, Carrier-Belleuse, a friend of Daumier, probably made it, but no one is sure. Hair tossed like a conductor's, hollowed eyes, this face is an idealized version of the artist, whom a nearby photograph reveals as a fat, distinguished gentleman. It would be inappropriate irony that Daumier sculpt himself with none of the humor with which he depicts others...
...FIXER. An adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer prizewinning novel that is faithful to the original in its impassioned portrait of the dignity of individual man. John Frankenheimer directs it with taste, and the actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm -are all transcendent in their roles...