The film is well-written and brilliantly acted, but deserves a demerit for factual inaccuracies, especially related to Nash’s complex sexuality and family life. This leaves a gnawing paint-by-the-numbers approach for mass appeal only. The film was an enormous success, winning four Academy Award...
But it doesn’t have half the impact of Wilder’s tale of an insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) who gets seduced by a devious housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) and roped into her plans to kill her husband. Wilder and Raymond Chandler’s cynical script set the tonal standard for film noir to...
Dunaway followed the success with another hit, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), in which she played Vicki Anderson, an insurance investigator who becomes involved with Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen), a millionaire who attempts to pull off the perfect crime. Norman Jewison hired Dunaway after he sa...
but on account of the fuller variety of its appeal, soul speaking to soul in those long-cadenced lines, not through form and colour alone, though through these, indeed, completely and without loss, but with intellectual and emotional utterance, with lofty passion and with loftier thought, with...