Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, but soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle...
...FABULOUS FUNNIES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A gallery of comic-strip characters-including Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant and Dick Tracy-leaps onto the TV screen in song-and-dance routines, animated episodes and interviews with such cartoonists as Al Capp, Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz and Rube Goldberg. Carl Reiner is the host...
...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...
...collective responsibility. Tracy exuded New Englandisms and was honest as a rock; but he could carry it no further, because Kramer's picture never achieved even the subtlety of a good Playhouse 90 (Judgment at Nuremberg), incidentally, like Ship of Fools, improves measurably when shown on the home screen). Worse yet was It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, a comedy without a laugh bigger than its title. Here truly were the ghastly deeps of Tracy's career, coming at a time when his potential seemed boundless. By comparison with Mad World, Guess Who is Harding...
...Iowa, is a difficult abstract work, with no apparent plot or sequence, which talks elliptically of Greek myths and their significance to film makers: "Film is like the snake, the worm Ourobouros, and like all continuous forms can be symbolic of evil." Montages of images cascade across the screen for 21 minutes while Narrator Parker reads the directions from the script ("Medium Shot: Wife on Ferris wheel, seat-five. Close up wife's frightened face . . .") in order to remind viewers that they are watching a film. The chaos is astonishingly well photographed and edited-and, far more than most...