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Showing posts with label paul mazursky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paul mazursky. Show all posts

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Harry and Tonto (1974)


A drama by Paul Mazursky, starring Art Carney.
An old man is kicked out of his apartment because the building is being torn down. He goes to live with his son, but doesn't like it there. He arranges a visit with his daughter in Chicago, but has trouble getting there.
The plot and characters were pretty cool. I usually tend to like films about travel anyway. The style was right for the film and the production value wasn't bad. At almost 2 hours, the pace was good and they fit lots of sub-plots into that time. I'm rating this good just because I liked it.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Alex in Wonderland (1970)


An art film directed by Paul Mazursky.
A film director ponders his next film as his life goes on with family and friends.
This was really strange. The plot didn't seem to flow very well because of choppy cuts between scenes and drastic changes of locations and situations. The main character seemed like a cool hippy, but the rest of the characters didn't play a large enough role to count for much. The version that I got was of terrible quality in audio and video, but I watched it anyway. I'm rating this adequate for being cool, but a little confusing.