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Poitier's idea was to present the first inside look at the life and love of a young Negro couple. Fine in theory, but why did he have to do it in a story that not even the most gullible honky would buy? Poitier cast himself as a slick hustler in a continental-cut tux who spouts fluent Japanese, keeps a pet piranha, sits in on bongos and serves as baby sitter for a brood of Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet...
...American movie-watcher is occasionally duped by hand-held camera into feeling that what he is watching is reality. But those who see a slick Hollywood color job directed and lead-roled by John Wayne know different. About every fifth person walking out of The Green Berets was giving a detailed description to his friends about how it was filmed in Georgia, how it cost $3,000,000, and how it would've cost lost more if the army hadn't lent them most of the stuff...
Heat makes you think of cool, of getting out of this place. You can go to Crane's Beach, which is good, or Revere Beach, which is bad because the water is slick with oil and is streaked with something that is reddish brown and looks very bad. You can go to Cape Cod, which is good if you know somebody. Or you can go to Maine, which is probably just as hot as it is here anyway...
...faced man who said he was a farmer from northern Middlesex County manned a desk full of nomination petitions at the doorway. One reporter, somewhat uncharitably, said the farmer was "dressed in a smartly-cut Robert Hall suit." Sitting next to the farmer was a cripple, who had a slick DA hair-cut and a black leather jacket. His crutches lay on the floor. "We've got to get Governor Wallace on the ballot now," he said, pounding his fists. "And then the fight isn't over. It isn't over on November Fifth either. This fight is just beginning...
Polanski's overrated Knife in the Water was at least well-paced and slick, exuding an unpretentious formalism we happily like to associate with good committed art. Since then, the money increased, Hollywood beckoned, Polanski learned English, and his films have apparently fallen into every cinematic pitfall readily available. Repulsion revelled in cheap lens distortion and sound effects, and The Fearless Vampire Killers was lousy with back-drops painted in poorly processed Metrocolor...