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Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
...problem is not so much that Bissell reproduces verbatim his Freshman diary, his conversations with his son, his reasons for majoring in anthropology as an undergraduate, and his favorite recipe for Harvard beets. And one really can't blame him for mentioning on innumerable occasions that he wrote the script for the Pajama Game; it really was a fine show. The problem is that Bissell's prose style is lousy...
Technically, the film is not impressive. The views of the Po Valley, wide and still and parqueted with poplars, silver the screen like scenes from the hand of Ruisdael; but the script is often awkward and the acting consistently crude. Yet the picture is a moving experience. Il Grido means The Cry, and the cry comes from the heart. With it, Antonioni opens the aorta of his talent and releases the cold grey mainstream of his feeling, the chilling theme of all his art: that modern man has somehow lost the meaning of his life, that God alone knows when...
...easy to discount these weaknesses. Chris and Bitte Rawson's new translation gives a solid idiomatic script that never sounds awkward. Stephen Tucker has designed a brilliant, extremely compact set: the costumes and music are admirable. Babe has directed a Ghost Sonata that is a capable and striking rendition of Strindberg's fantasies and obsessions...