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...viewer, the Prussians, all teeth and bayonets, burst from the woods to end the battle. As they do, the score blares a Haydn anthem. The theme, Bondarchuk is well aware, became the melody for Deutschland über Alles. The subtlety of that touch matches H.A.L. Craig's screenplay and Steiger's Napoleon...
Patton received seven awards including best actor, best direction and best original screenplay. Love Story, despite seven nominations, received only one award-best original score...
...danse macabre in thematic and dramatic progressions. Like the early Renoir, he is very much an actor's director, using his characters' figures and reactions to make comic points, deftly tracking and cutting to capture them. Arkin succeeds in bringing visual depth and storytelling acumen to Jules Feiffer's screenplay. If only Arkin had directed Catch...
Playwright Arthur Kopit-who is best known for his hit, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad-is now busy working on a new screenplay. Its Kopital title, which is presumably half the creative battle: Good Morning, Berenger! How's Everything Today? Not Bad? That's Good...
There is a vital difference between black humor and antic violence. Dark comedy requires a point of view, plus a consistent thread of absurdity that allows the audience to suspend belief. Writer-Cartoonist Jules Feiffer does not lack a point of view, but in his first screenplay, Little Murders, the thread of absurdity snaps so often that the film becomes little more than a succession of insane horrors...