Richard Whitehall
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“On the whole the rich possibilities of the subject are thinly realized.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jun 1, 2020
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Fearless Frank (1967)
“Technically there is nothing wrong with the movie... but, in the final analysis, the work is as juvenile as the genre it is satirizing, not cutting enough, not funny enough, not imaginative enough.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jun 1, 2020
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“[Heinosuke] Gosha's greatness as adirector is nowhere left in doubt.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jun 1, 2020
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“Without thinking it to be in any way a masterpiece, I find Mailer's movie pretty sharp, a probing into the role of the police in contemporary society.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Mar 17, 2020
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Hamlet (1964)
100%
“It is the fluency with which the poetry has been translated to the visual, the careful orchestration of speech and movement, [that] makes this an outstanding movie.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 4, 2020
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Night and Fog (1955)
100%
“Resnais' movie is greater than a newsreel of concentration camp atrocities.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 4, 2020
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Blood of the Beasts (1949)
“Superb.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 4, 2020
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
75%
“The carefully stylized violence and reconstruction of that era comes off very well.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
100%
“Singin' in the Rain [is] to me the Hollywood movie which has most nearly achieved perfection.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Funny Face (1957)
87%
“The last great original screen musical.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Murder at the Vanities (1934)
78%
“Poor murder mystery-cum-musical.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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The Big Broadcast (1932)
“A lousy bit of assembly-line film-making.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
91%
“The direction is flashy and mainly superficial, and where a little analysis and involvement wouldn't have come amiss there's only the sheer confusion of one of the most extrovert syles in Hollywood.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
95%
“Virgil Tibbs is the strongest role Poitier has had in a long time, and he plays it brilliantly and believably.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
“No other contemporary director makes fuller use of pictorial symbolism, the use of inserts and close-ups of inanimate objects, to reinforce the psychological undertow of his movies than [Heinosuke] Gosho.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Lenny Bruce Performance Film (1967)
80%
“Some of it is barely coherent, but much of it is devastating, and the cut and thrust of his funniest moments are sublime.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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La Guerre Est Finie (1966)
87%
“Most of all... the movie lacks fluidity.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Point Blank (1967)
93%
“The best contemporary gangster melodrama we've had in a long time.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Vali: The Witch of Positano (1965)
“Vali is a natural cinematic presence, living through an ecstatic double vision of herself in the world around her, a world in which the barriers between fantasy and reality have crumbled and collapsed.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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Mickey One (1965)
71%
“Is it Penn's best movie? I'm tempted to think so.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Feb 3, 2020
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The Activist (1969)
“A political movie. Great. But a muddled one.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 31, 2020
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Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? (1968)
“It's the roughest sort of cinema-verite with picture often bad and sound generally worse.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 23, 2020
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“The Sky Pirate is the most sheerly beautiful underground feature since Flesh, some of it breathtakingly lyrical... and with a marvelously sensitive appreciation for the psychological values of color.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 23, 2020
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“One of the finest and most honest essays into human desire I've seen.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 23, 2020
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Medium Cool (1969)
96%
“Haskell Wexler has always been a pretty good cameraman, one of the best around, and indications are he's going to be just as good a director.” –
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 17, 2020
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