ON SCREEN Mr. Welles Comes Home By Mike Herr Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, made nearly 10 years ago and released abroad as Confidential Report, has finally come to America -thanks to Daniel...
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ON SCREEN Three Kinds of Failure By Mike Herr The Nick Adams who turns up in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man has about as much to do with Hemingway as Andy Hardy did. The intensity...
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ON SCREEN This Side of Tragedy By Mike Herr Whatever it was that looked like a new wave in France has petered out into a kind of coterie cinema. That Francois Truffaut can function in the...
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ON SCREEN Preminger Ford and Kubrick By Mike Herr Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent is better than I thought it would be, considering the source, but it still isn't very good. The film is...
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ON SCREEN Weak but Still Sweet By Mike Herr A Taste of Honey is about the painful growth of an adolescent girl living in one grimy English town after another with a mother who has no...
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ON SCREEN Classics and Commercials By Mike Herr Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is an extremely beautiful film to look at, a delicately ornate surface that glides in front of you as...
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ON SCREEN Surrealism of the Actual By Mike Herr La Notte ("The Night"), Michelangelo Antonioni's second major work to be shown here, confirms what L'Avventura suggested: He is the best...
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