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Roger Greenspun

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Trick Baby (1973) 80% EDIT “Larry Yust indulges in too much flashy sound montage and in the obtrusive cross-cutting into sequences that seems the curse of the newer movies. But he and Isidore Mankofsky have a lovely sense of place and perspective for the camera frame.” – New York Times Sep 29, 2023 Full Review Macbeth (1971) 78% EDIT “I can imagine a much better Macbeth, but in point of fact all the other productions I've seen have been much worse.” – New York Times Jul 21, 2023 Full Review King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) 100% EDIT “King attempts no analysis. It raises reportage to the power of ritual, and for all its lapses it is a most solemnly beautiful film.” – New York Times Sep 23, 2020 Full Review Doctors' Wives (1971) 20% EDIT “More fun to think about than to sit through, Doctors' Wives is yet never as awful as it ought to be.” – New York Times Jun 2, 2020 Full Review Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971) 50% EDIT “[Unman, Wittering and Zigo] begins full of ripe and gruesome promise that very shortly turns overripe and openly ridiculous.” – New York Times Mar 20, 2020 Full Review The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (1970) 20% EDIT “Samantha Eggar is so fine that she is in herself sufficient justification for the movie.” – New York Times Mar 18, 2020 Full Review No Blade of Grass (1970) 29% EDIT “On the level of grade‐C ad venture it works well enough, but on the several other levels not which it aspires, it does not work at all.” – New York Times Mar 4, 2020 Full Review The Desperados (1969) EDIT “What The Desperados lacks in cinema sophistication it makes up several times over in dramatic density.” – New York Times Nov 19, 2019 Full Review The Comic (1969) 67% EDIT “It isn't a good movie but it is often an interesting one, and it is full of lovely people.” – New York Times Nov 19, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Brother Carl is Susan Sontag's second movie. But it is the first movie in which she seems to see film as a means to life rather than as a repository for ideas.” – New York Times Oct 17, 2019 Full Review The Hunting Party (1971) 20% EDIT “Miss Bergen, mostly without tricks and without reservations, plainly succeeds with a part that is not so much a character as a test of character.” – New York Times Nov 19, 2018 Full Review Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) 56% EDIT “An extraordinarily impressive movie by a filmmaker whose career has not always been marked by success, or even noble failure.” – New York Times Oct 13, 2018 Full Review Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow? (1971) 2.5/5 EDIT “Neither the relationship, nor the kids, nor even the animals gets handsome enough treatment to redeem Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! from general mediocrity.” – New York Times Jul 22, 2013 Full Review Bronco Bullfrog (1970) 100% EDIT “If you were to take the tough urban environment that constitutes the imaginary world of A Clockwork Orange and put real and rather decent people into it, you might come up with the preconditions for Barney Platts‐Mill's s Bronco Bullfrog.” – New York Times Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Ice (1970) 82% EDIT “The cast is amateur (and wholly anonymous, though you may recognize a few friends and familiar faces), but it is adequate to the moods, frustrations, accommodations and intolerances of the movie.” – New York Times Jul 6, 2010 Full Review L'Amour Fou (1969) 100% 4/5 EDIT “L'Amour Fou, while possibly not a masterpiece, is a work of such interest, skill and intelligence that it deserves to be something better than a legend -- in what is, after all, still its own time.” – New York Times Nov 12, 2007 Full Review Visions of Eight (1973) 57% 2/5 EDIT “As for so much of the rest, it seems to forget that it is the privilege of the modest art of film to find the meaning of things just in the way they are seen to be.” – New York Times Oct 23, 2007 Full Review The Cremator (1969) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Kopfrkingl himself, played by Rudolf Hrusinky, with the face of a gently demonic Charles Laughton and the manner of a malevolent Herbert Marshall, is a creation of considerable interest.” – New York Times Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) 91% 5/5 EDIT “Time and again, it is shockingly beautiful, and I can think of nothing in recent films so ravishing as his strange romantic vision of the city, the river, the softly lighted tourist boats in the night.” – New York Times Apr 8, 2006 Full Review The Money Order (1968) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Sembne's approach is spare, laconic, slightly ironic and never patronizing.” – New York Times Aug 9, 2005 Full Review Ciao! Manhattan (1973) 60% 0/5 EDIT “At bottom Ciao! Manhattan is cruel exploitation -- though the film is dedicated to Miss Sedgwick's memory, an ultimate indignity.” – New York Times May 21, 2005 Full Review Bad Company (1972) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “A naturalistic, irreverent and sometimes broadly comic view of a largely ignored aspect of the Civil War gives Bad Company a refreshingly good name.” – New York Times May 21, 2005 Full Review Night of the Lepus (1972) 0% 1/5 EDIT “It is this technical laziness as much as the stupid story or the dumb direction that leaves the film in limbo and places it in neither one camp nor the other - neither with Attack of the 50-Foot Woman nor with Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail.” – New York Times May 10, 2005 Full Review Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “One of the better new movies in town, and better in a genre -- science-fiction -- that at the crucial middle level where the history of movies is made, if not written, has recently been not so much bad as invisible.” – New York Times May 10, 2005 Full Review Slaughter (1972) 17% EDIT “Jim Brown plays Slaughter as if he hated doing it, which is to his credit.” – New York Times May 10, 2005 Full Review
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