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He's playing, to paraphrase Elizabeth Taylor in ''Butterfield 8," the slut of all time -- or at least of 18th-century Europe.
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
influenced by The Rose Tattoo (1955)
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In some ways, Bridges reminds me of The Rose Tattoo, the Tennessee Williams-based film starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster.
As a parable of art-triumphing-over-Nazism, it's not as strong as the Arthur Miller-scripted 1980 TV movie "Playing for Time," and as a Warsaw ghetto survival story, it can't touch the 1997 Danish drama, "The Island on Bird Street."
Yet another James Bond parody — they’ve been making those for 50 years now, dating back to “Our Man Flint” — this one imagines McCarthy as a desk analyst with a curious streak of hidden aggression.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
influenced by Our Man Flint (1966)
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If you like this, try: the first “Kingsman” movie and “Our Man Flint”…
Such spoofery dates back to the ’60s, when movies such as “Our Man Flint” and “The Silencers” were harmless, apolitical fun.
That, seven miles up, lives depend on pilots sobriety and skill is not the films point of concentration, which appears more in line with that of such better considerations as The Lost Weekend, The Country Girl, Come Back, Little Sheba, Days of Wine and Roses, Long Days Journey into Night and Leaving Las Vegas.