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Boston Film Festival. A very respectable series, including too many films to list here. The highlight is perhaps Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien, a new film about French collaboration during World War II. But also Attica, a Laughton film, a DeBroca film, Max von Sydow as Steppenwolf, a Boorman film, Monty Python, and the new Bunuel. Call the Orson Welles for the schedule...
...been made into a movie just so I won't understand it in college. The last Hesse story that got a film treatment, Siddhartha, turned out horrendously, but the new film has the potential to be at least interesting. The cast for this one is quite good: Max von Sydow and Dominique Sandra star. The Orson Welles is having a one-time-only "sneak" preview tonight, so if you're interested be forewarned...
...exorcise the spirit from the girl's body. The priests are characterized with cliches: the younger one (Jason Miller) suffers guilt over the death of his mother, who appears to him in dreams carrying two shopping bags and moaning his name; the elder (Max von Sydow) is a weathered, mystic intellectual-perhaps modeled after Teilhard de Chardin-who may or may not be able to muster the strength to go a final round with the Prince of Darkness...
...special effects-flying furniture, a levitation-are good. What else could be expected with such a budget? Von Sydow has a presence of unshadowed strength. Jason Miller (author of the Broadway play That Championship Season) makes a very impressive first film appearance with a performance full of swift undercurrents of psychic pain. Lin da Blair performs bravely as the tormented girl; the rasping voice of her demon is hauntingly dubbed (without screen credit) by Mercedes McCambridge. Ellen Burstyn, a good actress who is especially adept at portraying a beleaguered strength, is stuck here with an assignment that might once have...
...Virgin Spring. 1960. Academy Award-winning Bergman film centers of violent rape-murder in medieval Sweet Fine acting by Max von Sydow...