First Love film adaptation by Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell directs co writes and stars in a lush adaptation of Turgenev about a privileged Russian family summering at a country estate and a young Alexander who becomes obsessed with Sinaida the impoverished princess’s daughter. Social class and looming war frame a tragic romance.
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Catch-22 film reviewed as flawed adaptation from novel
The critic finds Catch-22 a weak approximation of Joseph Heller's anti war novel and a mediocre movie. Mike Nichols mixes Bergman like segments with cruder burlesque, failing to maintain a consistent cinematic style and undermining key themes.
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Mike Nichols
Virginia Woolf
Bergman
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Nichols
Orson Welles
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