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...modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even a DePalma. Friedkin and Blatty successfully induce nausea, not terror--unless you're one of the impressionable innocents who gave this film its reputation, in which case, frankly, you have no taste. An excellent performance by Max Von Sydow, a pretty good one by Ellen Burstyn, a lifeless one by Jason Miller (who should stick to--or rather go back to--writing plays), and one by Linda Blair that is as disgusting as anything else in the movie...
...cool, savvy inspector. Ventura has a striking physical presence which he uses well to convey the grave sense of urgency that dominates the picture. His ability to keep his cool contrasts effectively with the surrounding madness. Fernando Rey as the pragmatic Minister of Justice and Max Von Sydow as the fanatically authoritarian Chief Justice also play their roles convincingly...
...Night of the Tribades. Swedish Playwright Per Olov Enquist's broodingly impressive drama on the life of Strindberg, in which Max von Sydow made a powerful Broadway debut...
...play is not about lesbians, only about the dark, anguishing suspicion in Strindberg's mind that his wife may be one and may have betrayed him with one. In this play-outside-a-play Strindberg (Max von Sydow) is directing a brief one-acter of his own called The Stronger. The actual play that Strindberg wrote is a 15-minute monologue in which a voluble wife tests her husband's adamantly silent mistress...
There is no insecurity in Max von Sydow. He gives a towering performance. In intensity, innate authority and mordant humor, this is acting in the thermodynamic range. Bibi Andersson is pallid by comparison, a picture-postcard beauty who recites her lines without the intent to lacerate-rather strange considering her snake-fanged delivery as a wife in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. Eileen Atkins is in Von Sydow's league. She encases herself in a palpable shield of silence and then hurls her lines like javelins dead on the mark...