Word: portrayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women. But after all this simply reverses the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...multiple-screen technique is a favorite of Expo's moviemakers. Great Britain's most important film, produced by James Archibald and directed by Donald Levy, is also shown on three screens, although here the trio frequently function independently. Only five minutes long, the movie attempts to portray the history of energy-first bursting from the sun, gradually disciplined and controlled by man. In fact, the film is little more than a series of violent images: arrows, acrobats, whirling lathes and ballet dancers, a time-lapse sunset, atomic explosions, water droplets in slow motion. Assaulted by three simultaneous images...
MADE IN ITALY. An assortment of scenes -some merely gentle sketches, some with stings in their tales-that portray modern-day Italy and the Italians. Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) directs a fine cast that includes Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak...
MADE IN ITALY. An assortment of scenes-some merely gentle sketches, some with stings in their tales-that portray modern-day Italy and the Italians. Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) directs a fine cast that includes Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak...
Preminger's cast is wild, probably deliberately so. He has Michael Caine playing a somewhat selfmade Southern wheeler-dealer, and Jane Fonda as his wife; Burgess Meredith and Madeline Sherwood portray a small-town judge and his wife; and John Philip Law and Faye Dunaway are a poor (but honest) farmer and his wife. Rounding out the cast, in two unfailingly thankless roles, are Robert Hooks -- also a poor but honest farmer -- and Diahann Carroll, the latter as a local girl gone North and corrupted...