Word: strickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joseph Strick's film of Ulysses is wonderful. For those who know, and presumably love, Joyce's novel (our century's greatest long poem to date), it will be enough to say that the film is worthy of its source. Admission prices, unfortunately, exceed the cost of the book, but those who can afford them should pay them...
...still think of film, perhaps (even those of us who proclaim loudest its potential for subtlety), as a medium best suited for the rendering of external action, as opposed to the action of the mind. Better to film The Odyssey, we might say, than anything of Joyce's. Strick, however, has perceived that the action of the mind manipulates concrete images, and he has spared no energy in setting up and filming even scenes that flit for a mere second through the capricious minds of his characters...
ULYSSES. Director Joseph Strick has fashioned if not the best, certainly not the worst possible film version of James Joyce's novel, helped by a fine cast of actors (particularly Milo O'Shea as Bloom) who ring as true as Irish shillings...
ULYSSES. An honest, mildly sensational and for the most part intelligent precis o James Joyce's masterpiece-although th film suffers from Director Joseph Strick' decision simply to illustrate Joyce's words rather than transform them into images...
ULYSSES. An honest mildy sensational, and for the most part intelligent precis of James Joyce's masterpiece - although the film suffers from Director Joseph Strick's decision simply to illustrate Joyce's words rather than transform them into images...