Brudnoy's Film Index
Brudnoy, David
"Brudnoy's Film Index" The Abdication: Why (maybe) Sweden's Queen Christina left her throne in 1654 to find happiness as a Catholic chasing after the Vatican cardinals. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch, back from that Lost...
...A lusty, loving, wry, and tender ramble through the four seasons and the many conditions of humankind...
...Death Wish: Bronson's biggest, a frightening fantasy about today's New York succumbed to muggers, avenged by the widow of one muggee...
...A joy throughout...
...The real reason the Protestant Swede left home to become an R.C...
...Lots of sweat, groaning natives, sinister sneers, and mud up to here...
...No sloppy sentimentality, but much sentiment...
...A massive clinker with everyone from Moses (Charlton Heston) to the Exorcist girl (Linda Blair), and cross-eyed Karen Black, that warbler in a habit Helen Reddy, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy as a lush, and Gloria Swanson as Gloria Swanson, and everybody's favorite: the 747, with a big hole in its cockpit...
...The visceral reaction is: go to it, baby...
...no holds barred, yet without the excesses of retrospective of his most recent film before this, Roma...
...The weather was better...
...Robert Altman's film captures the compulsive spirit of gambling and the off-hand ease of the dialogue is at times superlative...
...Amarcord: Fellini's magnificent reminiscence of his 1930s boyhood...
...Gold: Roger Moore, on leave from his James Bond role, saving a South African mine from a flood brought on by the meanies...
...The cerebral reaction is: we're all cooked if the vigilante mentality catches on...
...Airport 1975: A disaster a day keeps the pilots at play...
...in Rome...
...a good man to fly it is hard to find...
...Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch, back from that Lost Horizon hokum, meandering through a tiresome lot of philosophical and (tee hee) sexual discussions leading nowhere...
...Git them bastards...
...But then, maybe we're all cooked as it is...
...California Split: Segal and Gould as two gambling freaks devoted to the tables night and day...
Vol. 8 • January 1975 • No. 4
