Word: voight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Deliverance would not have worked as the Stepped-down film which Boorman fashioned were it not for the performance of Jon Voight as Ed. is the film's rock of common sense: his reactions give the film a base on which its audience can stand. Voight's eyes and stance manage to express naivite, moral and physical shock, the hard intent of a man who must reach a pinpointed goal, and the penance of a killer reawakened to humanity. Without him, the swagger of an uncontrolled Burt Reynolds as the uncontrollable Lewis, and the inordinate weakness in Ronny...
...three of the four men, the trip into the wilderness is something of a lark. For Lewis (Burt Reynolds) it is a ritual and a trial. He tells his best friend Ed, played by Jon Voight: "Machines are gonna fail. The system's gonna fail. And then-survival...
Much of the effect of the movie rests finally on Jon Voight's Ed. Initially withdrawn and uncertain, the characterization takes on strength and clarity as Ed becomes more crucial to the story. Voight captures Ed's turmoil, his spiritual and physical agonies, in a way that confirms his standing as one of our finest young actors...
...Voight's performance also crystallizes the most dubious aspect of the movie. Is Ed really any more of a man for enduring and surviving as he does...
...Gabin, Eric von Stroheim. Marcel Dalio. SYMPHONY CINEMA ONE. Wednesday and Thursday, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Midnight Cowboy. John Schlesinger directed this intermittently moving but sometimes crude and gimmicky platonic Love Story between two buddy-buddy freak types on the fringes of Manhattan society. Superlatively acted by Jon Voight as a frustrated lexas stud and Dustin Hoffman as the down-on-his-luck cripple he joins forces with. Also, Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa, a tasteless but hilarious comedy of mother hate, starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon. CINEMA 733. Wednesday and Thursday. Call...