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...absurd on film as Chaplin would in print." Chaplin is probably not the most apt comparison to Joyce--Fellini or Bergman are more appropriate. One would be hard put to translate 8 1/2 or Persona into print and still maintain any semblance of the original. Yet, in 1967 Joseph Strick and Fred Haines courted disaster by writing a screen adaptation for James Joyce's Ulysses. The absurdity of the undertaking provides a perfect example of the irreconcilable differences between the two media. Ulysses, published in 1922, was hailed as a classic by Edmund Wilson, an "epic prose poem;" and denigrated...
ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...
...that it was only Henry Miller letting go his barbaric yawp over the rooftops of Paris. Today The Tropic of Cancer is available without prescription in drugstores all over America. And now, for anyone over 17, it is presented in motion-picture form, dirty words and all. Director Joseph Strick's last adaptation was Ulysses, which suffered not from infidelity to the text but from an insufficiency of imagination. In Tropic of Cancer, he again provides a verbatim stream of self-consciousness on the sound track, illustrating it with a series of dislocated vignettes. The result is a woodshed...
Miller's crapulous expatriates have a vitality that even Strick cannot quash. Their scatological, X-rated fury at a world that has the audacity to be imperfect is still molten. And their alternate curses at and apostrophes to the female pudenda retain a primal humor. But anyone who has read or watched the real Henry Miller knows that the author possesses a sly, ribald wit that is entirely absent from Rip Torn's somnambulistic impersonation. Leeching meals and wives from the bourgeois, Miller-Torn provides neither charm nor intelligence; it is impossible to believe that he would...
...most cerebral symbolism. Harold Scott, director of The Blacks and recipient of the Obie Award for an off-Broadway performance in Genet's Deathwatch, has resolved the latent tensions in Genct's material in the direction of naturalism-obviating some of the ludicrous pitfalls which plagued Joseph Strick in his attempt to film The Balcony...