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...sure you must realize that an original screenplay goes through any number of "improvements" at the hands of its producers (three in this case), directors (I counted at least five the time I sneaked on the set), and stars. Therefore, I pass the mantle of plagiarism on to far worthier "heads" than mine...
...should. In Looking Glass, the author is graduating from his genre, as he promised he would. Having had his say about espionage, a profession that does not transect the common lot, presumably Le Carré will henceforth apply his considerable competence to themes much nearer human experience-and much worthier of his own understanding...
Pusey said his generation--"despite what must surely even then have appeared to many an insufferable, supercilious attitude on our part"--was determined "to serve a deeper and worthier range of values than those which seemed to us to be held popularly in honor in our culture at that time...
...Touch, brought critics up short by stating that his grand design, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, on which he worked from 1915 to 1923, was intentionally left unfinished. Then, in 1923, in his grandest gesture of all, he announced that he was abandoning art for a worthier occupation: playing chess...
Director Rossen renders all this with just enough art-film panache to have won Lilith a place among far worthier movies in the recent New York Film Festival. Certainly, the techniques of modern moviemaking are much in evidence. Sound and images overlap. During long silent passages, the characters narrow their eyes at one another, conveying reams of censorable prose in each perfervid glance. The photography is often eerily beautiful-a subaqueous twilight world where everyone's torment finally condenses into eddying streams, stagnant pools and rushing rapids, an unsettling suggestion that the machinery of despair is water-driven...