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...Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says Von Sydow, "I thought with horror of Cecil B. DeMille and such things as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. But when I saw the script, I decided that the role of Jesus is absolutely not a religious clich...
...film has flaws: the script tends to dawdle, and the blank spots are too often chocked with cheesecake. But the actors, old-line British professionals, are unflappable, and the film is more than merely funny. It demonstrates, more impressively than most recruiting pictures, the advantages of military training in subsequent civilian life...
Behind every successful man, as any Hollywood script writer knows, there must be a little woman. Behind Joseph Levine there is Mrs. Levine. If it were not for her, he might have stayed in the restaurant business in Boston, but Rosalie, a onetime vocalist with Rudy Vallee's band, did not like restaurants, so Joe bought up the rights to seven Hollywood westerns and became a movie distributor. Nowadays Rosalie is just as important: when Levine needs a gadget to promote one of his pictures-4,000 small rubber bombs to advertise Hercules, or 5,000 genie lamps...
Breathless has no plot in the usual sense of the word. The script of the picture was a three-page memo. Situation, dialogue, locations were improvised every morning and shot off the cuff. By these casual means Godard has achieved a sort of ad-lib epic, a Joycean harangue of images in which the only real continuity is the irrational coherence of nightmare. Yet, like many nightmares, Breathless has its crazy humor, its anarchic beauty, its night-mind meaning...
...good is it? Attracted by the drumbeats for last week's Color Day, thousands of the colorless sought out friends with color sets and had a look for themselves. What they saw gave evidence that color can be very good indeed. It cannot be substituted for a literate script-even the muted, tastefully done sets of From These Roots could not disguise the detergent flavor. But, with its still faintly unrealistic air, color does enliven the pseudo-realism of daytime drama, and did so for the fourth Purex Special for Women, which soap-operatically explored the fate...