Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another disappointing performance is contributed by Susan Strasberg. Although the young actress is in the process of winning a large reputation for her work on Broadway, in the film she manages to do little more than sulk when she is called upon to portray a rather unattractive adolescent. Kim Novak's characterization as the girl who breaks her engagement has a somewhat greater depth and even a few touching moments. Yet her acting still does not match that of Rosalind Russel, who plays the part of a lonely schoolteacher. She appears both funny and pathetic when she all but swindles...
...lifetime. Like Joyce's Ulysses, it came into being when notions regarding the womb, the trauma, the unconscious were casting something like a dream-spell upon rational thinkers. Like Ulysses in this respect. Remembrance reads like a never-ending dream. But just as Ulysses manages also to portray the life and times of Joyce's Dublin, so Remembrance seems to many the greatest portrayal ever made of Proust's turn-of-the-century France...
...characters whom these actors portray are not exactly the same ones author Nelson Algren first created, since Preminger made a number of major changes when he adapted the novel for the screen. But they are still strikingly believable, and the new ending of their story does not really harm them. The Man with the Golden Arm remains a powerful document of degradation and triumph...
Within the monastery walls of San Marco. Fra Angelico concentrated on the simple devotional images required by his fellow monks for their meditations and prayers. The results, seen in the six cells definitely painted by Fra Angelico, represent Fra Angelico at his strongest and purest. To portray The Mocking of Christ, he painted a regal, blindfolded Christ figure crowned with thorns; the throng of jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head, cap raised in sarcasm, spitting upon Christ. By abstracting all but the essential central image, Fra Angelico makes the eye travel through...
Roger Klein, in the lead, manages to portray the understanding of the returned prodigal gently and sympathetically. Pierre Leval and Alan Goodrich, as the father and the elder brother, also succeed in creating strong characters of brief parts. Tom Harrington burned youthfully as the younger brother, and only Olga de Leuchtenberg faltered in her role as the mother...