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Sense of Loss. A sobering yet deeply emotional film by March Ophuls about the war in Northern Ireland. Interviews with families of the dead, with political leaders, bigots, socialists, ministers are intercut with newsreel footage. Ophuls's compassionate outlook, his respect for the complexities of the situation--even his showmanship--combine to create one of the most humane films of recent years...
...martial American way, all of this in the name of a protest sponsored by Northern Aid in support of Irish unification. There are a few skirmishes with the police, but the tone is definitely one of romantic American American support for the glorious struggle taking place over there. Intercut with this is a sobering interview of a Catholic couple, he having gotten out of Long Kesh internment camp a little while ago, and she crippled permanently by a British Army soldier's bullets. That the Provisional IRA is supported almost totally by contributions from Americans is no secret, but there...
...them. Tully (Stacy Keach) is a drunk, forever down on his luck and looking for a job, who hasn't had a fight in a year and a half. His dismal life with a rummy mis tress (Susan Tyrell) and his struggles to get back into boxing are intercut with the exploits of a younger but no more hopeful fighter (Jeff Bridges), who mar ries because he has to and promises to end up pretty much like Tully himself...
Brook is constantly aware of the possibilities in film for more supple dramatic movement, and he is able to use a technique as fundamental as parallel montage to alter completely the dramatic rhythms. A long speech of Goneril's is intercut with shots of Lear riding furiously on the hunt, so that by the time the single speech is finished, the relationship of father and eldest daughter is completely redefined. And when Lear first realizes the emasculating ingratitude of Goneril and Regan ("O, reason not the need!"), Brook moves toward a close-up of the king's eyes that measure...
...when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition can be lethal. News film of Nixon's 1968 nomination acceptance speech ("Let's win this one for Ike") is intercut with footage of Pat O'Brien in Knute Rockne advising his lachrymose squad to "win one for the Gipper"-their hospitalized teammate, who, with anachronistic irony, was portrayed by Ronald Reagan. De Antonio is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting...