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RACHEL, RACHEL. Actor Paul Newman makes his debut as director in a quiet tale of a frustrated schoolteacher just entering middle age. His wife. Actress Joanne Woodward, gives the film an added stature with her achingly real portrayal of the heroine...
...little trouble recognizing one another, if only because they are all inveterate train and boat travelers. When Composer Andre Previn and his wife spotted Folksinger Joan Baez on a train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting on a plane. "It's an absurd way to travel," she explains. "One is bound to feel claustrophobic-no one was meant to be 35,000 feet up in the air." Says Comedian Bob Newhart...
Corsaro has the broadest theatrical background of any American director now working in opera. He plays the self-doubting undertaker in the new Joanne Woodward movie, Rachel, Rachel. His play, A Piece of Blue Sky, was done on TV in 1960. On Broadway, he directed A Hatful of Rain and The Night of the Iguana. What all this experience has given him is the confidence to look at an opera as though nobody had ever staged it before...
RACHEL, RACHEL. Making his directorial debut in this subdued tale of a smalltown schoolteacher faced with the onset of middle age, Paul Newman extracts a towering performance from his wife, Joanne Woodward...
...intelligence of Rachel, Rachel is distributed evenly over its manifold parts. Miss Woodward's performance is typically thoughtful and typically first-rate. Estelle Parsons appears fleetingly and to good effect, and the rest of Rachel, Rachel's small cast is fine as well as suitably anoymous in character. Jerome Moross has written a score that would be more noteworthy if the themes and orchestration weren't so similar to The Big Country, for which he also wrote music. Stewart Stern's screenplay is consonant in its intelligence with Newman's direction...