Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find "inexpensive solutions to the nation's racial problems." When trouble threatens, Rap is rushed to the spot to deliver inflammatory harangues. Then the Senate can blame the riots on "outside agitators" and avoid spending any money on the slums. A year ago, wrote Baker, a theater script had been rejected as too far-out because it had Khrushchev's nephew defecting to the U.S. and joining the John Birch Society. But life outdid art. "Stalin's daughter defected to the U.S. and joined Sam Levenson and Elia Kazan in the society of bestsellers...
Some good acting gets lost in Nichols' vain attempt to prove himself a purveyor of cinematic pizazz. Bancroft and Hoffman are more capable than the script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...
...frustrated rage and alienation of adolescence is the real point and power of Fists. Bellocchio, who wrote his own script, may have personally identified with Alessandro's rampage, but he keeps his distance; the film has the detached quality of a series of animated tableaux. The actors however perform with great competence-especially Lou Castel as the matri-fratricide, Paola Pitagora as his sister, and Ciliana Gerace as the mother. The tableaux are often visually stunning, in the best tradition of Italian neorealism: the ennui and self-contempt of family meals at which the cat steals food from...
...expect from a Styne-Harburg collaboration. The property--Arnold Bennett's novel Buried Alive--made two successful movies, and there seemed no reason why it couldn't sustain a successful musical too. But Nunnally Johnson, who did the screenplay to the 1943 movie Holy Matrimony, has merely tightened his script a little and introduced a few new scenes in converting it to musical comedy. It isn't enough. Though Holy Matrimony was a charming comedy, its success is in retrospect attributable to the genius of its star, Monty Woolley. In the same role--that of England's foremost turn...
...violence, social and sexual impotence, within a familiar if abstracted social context. Bonnie and Clyde's merits have been much-discussed, and I can only state, with rank admiration, how beautifully wrought the film is: in the choices Peen has made in determining color and visual style, in the script construction and dialogue idiom, and in the consistently excellent acting...