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...distinguished polio victim? If I were famous enough to have a memorial statue, would the hearing impaired of America demand it show me with a hearing aid in each ear? We are fortunate that the protesters don't demand the memorial represent F.D.R. by an empty wheelchair. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...
DIED. FRED ZINNEMANN, 89, three-time Oscar-winning director; in London. From 1950s screen classics High Noon and From Here to Eternity through A Man for All Seasons in 1966, he demonstrated an abiding concern with the battle between good and evil, as well as a mastery of eliciting sensitive, finely etched performances from actors...
With war's end, and the onslaught of insularity in the '50s, many of the diaspora scattered again, finding refuge back home in European co-productions. Hollywood was retreating into familiar genres: into the memorial expanses of westerns like High Noon (directed by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann) or the paranoid apocalypse of science-fiction films like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian...
...incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores them to moral health, but nothing can rescue the movie from the prissy pictorialism of Director Fred Zinnemann (in a big step down from High Noon and A Nun's Story) and the frigid portentousness of the script...
...JULIA's strengths much outweigh its flaws. Although Zinnemann occasionally lapses into such cliches as juxtaposing plush hotels with Nazi terror to make statements about inequality--a gimmick that should have gone out with War and Peace--his direction is usually sound and the cast generally rises above any momentary awkwardness. To some, Lillian Hellman is a heroic cult figure; to others she is a commercialized martyr. In Julia, though, she is simply human, retracing in her memory a cherished portrait...