Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle...
...California's Dr. Folkert O. Belzer described a machine that, he hopes, will keep kidneys in good condition for as long as three days. About the size of an upright piano, the device contains two Plexiglas cylinders in either of which a kidney may rest on a wire screen. Plasma, fortified with body chemicals and penicillin, is fed to the kidneys' arteries through plastic tubes...
...angular, wide-eyed face nourishes a secret smile and a sensuality that can express itself in a dozen minor keys. Like so many other bright, blonde British birds, she invites comparison with Julie Christie; but in nine films so far, Suzy, now 30, has begun to shape a screen personality all her own. She first drew U.S. viewers' notice as Sidney Poitier's admiring teacher friend in To Sir, with Love, then as the terrorized hostage of The Penthouse. In her two latest films, she displays a widening range, an ability to mix comedy, glamour and poignancy, that...
...comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique promotes an episodic quality that defeats a build-up of suspense or tension; there is no attempt...
...made by far their best films, she for Cukor and Bogart for Hawks; Huston's reputation as a director grew deservedly tarnished, and the best of his later films (Moby Dick, The Misfits) were critical failures; only Agee, in writing The Night of the Hunter, managed to put on screen the American romance gothic that fascinated him. He died less than two years later...