Word: zorba
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...Zorba the Greek will probably please most of the people who go to see it, and that is where the pity lies. Director Michael Cacoyannis has assembled a neat package of cinematic goodies wrapped in effective technique which appears fine until examined. But one should not trust the Greeks, especially when they bear gifts, and similarly one should not trust this film...
...Chavez, a captain more likely to buckle than swash, Quinn provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...
...ZORBA THE GREEK. Anthony Quinn presses strong red wine from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, with Oscar Winner Lila Kedrova as the pathetic old jade who is drinking her final toast to life...
...ZORBA THE GREEK. Strong red wine distilled from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, with Anthony Quinn as Zorba, Oscar Winner Lila Kedrova as the pathetic old jade who is drinking her final toast to life...
This piece of juvenilia was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, who has done better (in The Trojan Women, Zorba the Greek) and knows better. The play's plot and characters are assembled from the Kopit-Albee playmaking kit. Bump's grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little...