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...state broadcasting monopoly, Radiodiffusion, Television Franchise, the film wound up on the cutting-room floor. R.T.F.'s producers, who scissored it out of a prepared news program, explained: "The presidential campaign is not yet open." The episodes underscored an issue that is producing a crescendo of static in non-Gaullist ranks, and even among some conscience-stricken Gaullists them selves-De Gaulle's blithe appropriation of France's radio and TV grid for his own political uses. When De Gaulle speaks, his words are broadcast repeatedly; but Defferre, since announcing his candidacy in December, has become...
Kazan's direction helps to compensate for the weakness of his screenplay. Excellent, restrained acting and careful regard for authentic detail give America, America almost documentary qualities. Some of the film's best moments are rather static scenes of village life in Anatolia, the wharfs in Constantinople, and manners in Greek households. There are fine bits of protest, too, like a glimpse of a busy American sea captain nonchalantly ignoring an aged stevedore who has collapsed under his burden. During the voyage, the faces of crew members reveal their contempt for the immigrants. The brunt of the social criticism loses...
...process is laborious, costly and slow, and not yet adaptable to highspeed printing. Merely to pose the static picture in last week's Look took two full days of work with a one-ton, cubical camera as complicated as an electronic computer. Five additional weeks were required to engrave the photograph, print it some 7,000,000 times on a sheet-fed offset press and then pour on and properly shape the clear plastic film that covers the picture with what amounts to a collection of lenses. The plastic lenses are so arranged that the viewer's left...
Scriptwriters Waterhouse and Hall, and director John Schlesinger have more than redeemed themselves after their previous collaboration, A Kind of Loving. Despite good reviews, that was a dreadful film--pretentious, hackneyed, maudlin, static--everything that Billy Liar is not. Here they move easily between fantasy and reality, in flowing, witty sequences...
Some reviewers never stop hailing the "unobtrusive" camera, but "unobtrusive" shouldn't be confused with banal. Although it is filmed with a good sense of static composition, The Easy Life fails to exploit fully the possibilities for visual movement which could have complemented the thematic content. One gets tired of seeing what it's like to pass a car when sitting in the driver's seat...