Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sleep. Director Howard Hawks and his writers (including William Faulkner) claimed they couldn't follow the plot of Raymond Chandler's detective novel. In any case, they turned Detective Phillip Marlowe into Humphrey Bogart yet still managed to retain large chunks of snappy Chandler dialogue. Watch this movie for mood and style, not plot, and you'll find it one of Bogart and Bacall's very best...
...BOOK OF NUMBERS has a raucous, picaresque, raunchy kind of charm, at least initially. Two black con men (Raymond St. Jacques and Philip Thomas) descend on an Arkansas town called El Dorado during the early '30s to start a numbers bank. Thomas has a rather meandering love affair with a "high yellow" woman (Freda Payne), leaving him little time to help St. Jacques fight off racist law officers and greedy white gangsters. St. Jacques, who also directed, works in some nice period feeling and a couple of quick, glancing social asides about the daily indignities of being black. After...
...first place is that the violence in the film is not set in a context of characterization. The acts of characters in a Hitchcock film are at least as ghastly as in Sisters, but the portrayal runs deeper. In Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951, written by Raymond Chandler) Robert Walker plays a strange, unbalanced character who is frightening because he seems so real. Yet he seems so real partly because Hitchcock is also able to give him both a macabre and a comic dimension and to sustain both aspects throughout the film. In Hitchcock, the comic aspect...
...tarry clumps of mud and orange peel, highly insured, decorate half the bon bourgeois salons of Paris. The author of many eloquent tracts, he speaks in defense of incoherence and illiteracy as poetic principles. An intellectual, Cartesian to the fingertips and a close friend of such literary eminences as Raymond Queneau, Jean Paulhan and FranÇois Ponge, he has based 30 years of work on the premise that Western culture is a grotesque irrelevancy. Dubuffet is indeed a quintessentially French figure...
SUNDAY: Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John. Raymond Burr stars as Pope John XXIII in this Easter inspirational about saving little Jewish children from the Nazis. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color...