Most movies leave us with so little that it probably seems unfair to dump on Sergei Bondarchuk’s film of “War and Peace” simply because it doesn’t leave us with enough.
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Miss Jean Brodie
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” is not a great movie, but it’s an unusually good one, and maybe Maggie Smith’s performance should really be called great. Her characterization is in the grand manner as modulated and controlled, and yet …
The Illustrated Man
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
There is a tendency to casually dismiss works of science fiction and the supernatural in the arts, as if this type of thinking were just too cheap, too trivial to be bothered with. “2001” was virtually boycotted by the New …
Monterey Pop
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
D.A. Pennebaker’s endlessly fascinating film, “Monterey Pop,” gives us Gracie Slick & The Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Simon & Garfunkle, Janis Joplin, Hugh Masekela, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Otis Redding, The Mamas & the Papas, Canned Heat, Country Joe …
Joanna
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
In an issue of Esquire magazine of a year or so ago, a brace of famous writers suggested that the ’60s have been too long with us, and that we hereby declare them at an end and devote the next …
Grazie, Zia
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
The work that’s being done by the new Italian cinema continues to amaze me, and the latest entry proves no exception.
The Queen
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
Was it really only ten years ago that Main Resnais shocked the world by graphically demonstrating that lovers do not always wear pajamas to bed?
China is Near
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
A new and exciting group of directors has appeared in the Italian cinema over the past four or five years. Its two most promising members are Marco Bellocchio and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Last of ’68
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Every Christmas season, the movie market is positively flooded with the year-end glut of new releases, and 1968 proved no exception.
Candy: doesn’t make it
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
“Candy” must be the world’s first avant-garde Gallop poll movie; there’s something for everybody… dirty old men, freaks, sadists, mom and dad, the kiddies, and homosexuals. The director, Christian Marquand, started out with a fool-proof formula guaranteed to appeal to …