Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many respects highly pictorial, yet in the most developed films his complicated intellect adds dimension to the straightforward impact of the images. In The Black Cat and The Naked Dawn, initially simple confrontations are made ambiguous by Ulmer's elusive concept of morality. The camera often works against the script in directing audience sympathies, and should we feel secure in our assessment of character relationships, Ulmer will invariably undermine the status quo and shift the dramatic balances. Consequently, Ulmer presents dozens of ideas in terms of changing moral alternatives, choices presented both to characters and audience. This becomes disturbing since...
...Nazi war criminal, then brought to trial in Tel Aviv, where he is uncovered again as a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner from World War II. Even the amazingly agile acting of Donald Pleasence and the sensitive direction of Harold Pinter cannot give substance, theatrical or philosophical, to a spurious script...
...script beneath the pictures reads like one of John Lennon's semiliterate Joycean pastiches. Flabby punjabs pass for wit ("Are you bluish? You don't look bluish"), and the boys' voyage is filled with stilted symbolism. In one scene, the quartet passes by the Sea of Phrenology, where huge heads of Moses, Cicero, Freud and Einstein loom; John recalls that a fellow named Ulysses also went on a journey. Ultimately, however, what is wrong with the film is the Beatles. They are not in it. Except for the songs and a final sequence in which they appear...
Whatever Hapepned to Baby Jane?-- Bette Davis and Joan Crawford play weird sisters in this debatably entertaining second-rate Robert Aldrich picture, marred by overly loud music and weak script construction. At M.I.T., Sunday night...
Luckily, director Hamlin has compensated for the minor acting inadequacies and, particularly, for the script's lack of density. He has fulfilled more promises than Arbuzou's play ever made...