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...mellower now (she celebrated her 70th birthday this month), but not so mellow as to rewrite her best-known play. When The Women is revived on Broadway this week, after two weeks of tryouts, the changes will be in the cast: a blonde seductress will replace Lainie Kazan, the temperamental brunette who refused to wear a blonde wig for the role...
...like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched photography uses a style known as "television light," meaning that the frame is burned with bright light so that everything will show up clearly on the home screen. In a theater, where the image is much larger, such a misconceived technique makes the actors look...
Adams Honse Films welcomes students, staff and guests of Harvard University to Elia Kazan's salute to adolescent sexuality, Splendor in the Grass which stars Warren Beatty and Natalic Wood supported by every good New York based character actor Kazan could find. Sat. 8 and 10.20 p.m. in the Dining Hall...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA I. A Face in the Crowd, which Elia Kazan made to satirize politics via media, wasn't very good to begin with and dates badly. Chuck Kramer has made an absurd case against political art on its basis in The Real Paper. He obviously doesn't know the best film examples (Rosi's works), and anything outside of film. With The Critic. Call 868-3600 for times...
There is a distant quality about The Emigrants, a kind of intangible emotional reserve. The cast is superb; there are surely no better film actors in the world than Von Sydow and Ullman. But the director cannot make us feel the desperation and the destinies of his characters. Elia Kazan's America, America was not so elaborate or well sustained as The Emigrants, but Kazan's film had the impact of personal experience. The Emigrants has the accumulation of exquisite detail and close observation; it lacks intensity...