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...these actresses seem not to interest Scorsese for their contribution to the cinematic life force - only as incidental expressions of the films' matter and manner. Loren, for instance: he zips past her to concentrate on the delectable comic turn by Paolo Stoppa. Scorsese is more taken by the light playing on Valli's face than the face itself; on the textures of Monica Vitti's hair, in the crystalline monochrome of "L'Avventura," than on the subtlety with which Vitti reveals a wounded soul through huge, blank eyes. In all Scorsese's reveries of a boyhood falling in love with...
...Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other or aggressively hogging the camera, the actors all seem loyally determined to play down to Actress Lollobrigida's level, and with the help of the worst dubbing job since Mickey Mouse first spoke in Swahili, they...
...picture does have its moments. Paolo Stoppa is excellent as the Count's harried servant; Chevalier can still put a peculiar lilt into a French song; and despite a washed-out process called Ferraniacolor, the Riveria remains the Riviera...
...fulfill the creator's intentions as naturally as if they were his hands and feet-even De Sica does exactly what De Sica wants. Toto, Italy's Chaplin, is exquisitely funny. Loren's parts fit beautifully into the whole. Mangano for once is convincing, and Paolo Stoppa, as a man who wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best of all is little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control...
...Finally, four years ago, she persuaded a New Orleans disk jockey called Poppa Stoppa to put her on his program. Soon after that, she had singing jobs again, swept along by the huge current jazz boom. "I dug up my old antique gowns - crepe and satin -and my long beads and fancy combs and shoes with rhinestones on the heels." The Music Was Different. Today, billed as vocalist with the Scobey combo, Lizzie is playing some of the country's better-known jazz spots (including, last month, Chicago's Blue Note). Everywhere, she becomes the favorite as soon...