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Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, for example, takes much of its style and action form the American gangster film. His Farenbeit 451 is adapted from a second-rate novel and takes after the sci-fi films of the fifties. The Bride Wore Black is a product of Truffaut's consuming interest in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, to whom the film is dedicated and the imitation detracts from the individuality of the film...
...sci-fi staging-revolving globes, electronic music, atoms whirling on projection screens-deftly captures the sweep and playfulness of Shaw's vision in the early parts. As the play draws on, however, the production stretches a bit thin. By the time the curtain rises on the dancing children of the 320th century, in Part 5, it appears that evolution has led to a Swedish gym class in a grove of neon tubes...
...sounds like the scenario for a low-budget sci-fi flick, but thousands of Californians now actually believe that these horrible events will soon happen. For months, astrologers, fundamentalist preachers, telepathists, clairvoyants and assorted mystics have been predicting the imminent demise of California by a giant earthquake; many of them are convinced that doomsday will occur some time this month...
...stories are adapted from a novel by Ray Bradbury, a sci-fi writer whose eerie fantasies are sometimes ill served by his earthbound prose. In them he predicts a time when children can conjure up a nightmare from their subconscious to kill their parents and anticipates the eventual psychological deterioration of space explorers and the sunset of the world. Screenwriter Howard B. Kreitsek substitutes a few ringers of his own ("There is a point at which fantasy becomes dangerously close to reality," Robert Drivas intones portentously). But responsibility for the failure of The Illustrated Man must rest with Director Jack...
...Truffaut in The Soft Skin abandoned the visual conceits of, narrow and widening screen and rocketing flashbacks that characterized his previous works. Skin was a mild film of convention that won few admirers. Fahrenheit 451, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, was his only true failure, an atypically emotionless sci-fi attempt to show the future as nightmare. The fact, of course, that it was done in English by a director who could not speak the language made the project disaster-prone from the beginning...