Review by David Ehrlich from Film.com It’s appropriate, and perhaps almost necessary, that John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is ultimately a very good film that’s dying to be great. The final chapter in Frankenheimer’s informal Paranoia Trilogy, (the other installments being The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May), Seconds is the best and certainly the most […]
by shael stolberg for FILMbuttton What can you say about M*A*S*H? What can you say about Robert Altman? What can you say about Ring Lardner, Jr? It would be very simplistic to say one was a film, the other a director and the latter a screenwriter. A more realistic statement could be that one is […]
by Bosley Crowther BUDD SCHULBERG and Elia Kazan, the writer-director team whose On the Waterfront manifested the rare congeniality of their skills, are doing a brisk encore in tracing the phenomenal rise (and fall) of a top television “personality” in their new film, A Face in the Crowd. This sizzling and cynical exposure, which came […]
By A.H. WEILER Published: June 28, 1957 THE frenetic and often sordid machinations of a power-mad Broadway columnist, the unprincipled press agent who is his hatchet man and the avid coterie that surrounds them are savagely dissected in Sweet Smell of Success>, which came to Loew’s State yesterday. It is not a towering, universal theme […]
