Word: niro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effect is disjointed from the opening sequence, a frenzied victory celebration in a skyscraper nightclub where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra is doing a radio spot. Unemployed Sax Player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), on a spree in his sporty new civvies, picks up ex-U.S.O. Singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) in an ill-paced scene that is lumbered with flat, witless dialogue ("Give me your phone number...
...film shares roughly the strengths and weaknesses of the novel. Perceptions about the giddy excesses and malformed ironies of the movie business come through strongest: the unweaned egos of the people who make movies, the pushcart buccaneering of the studio heads who subsidize them. Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro) belongs to both worlds. If movies are dreams for him, they are yard goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady...
...earthquake, floating down a man-made river aboard the great plaster head of a mythological goddess-are brought off with the checked flamboyance characteristic of the best in Panic in the Streets and East of Eden. Kazan has certainly lost none of his assurance with actors. De Niro makes an appropriately remote Stahr, bright or shaded depending on the circumstances and angle of view. Mitchum, Milland, Tony Curtis (as an aging superstar), Dana Andrews (as a fading director) and Jack Nicholson (very canny as a Communist union organizer) fill in their roles . with quick, bold strokes...
...same problems plague this early effort by Brian de Palma. Robert De Niro plays a young filmmaker in Greenwich Village who becomes involved with a group of black actors from the "living theatre." The group invites white audiences to experience "being black," then terrorizes them. The guilty whites exit from the nightmare proclaiming how interesting the evening was--now they really know what it's like to be black in America. De Niro is alright here, certainly better than Jack Nicholson was in his one major comic role (The Fortune), but one leaves with the impression intact that De Niro...
...impossible. If that happens, our sex organs become the centerpiece of the film.' He never did agree with me. The Godfather"? What the hell did I know about a 65-year-old Italian who smokes twisted goat-shit cigars?" The young actor he admires most is Robert De Niro, who played the young Godfather. "I doubt he really knows how good he is," says Brando...