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The Film Forum's tribute to Jean-Louis Trintignant continues today with a pair of Romy Schneider co-starrers, which is perfectly okay by this guy. LE COMBAT DANS L'ILE finds Schneider baffled by her rich industrailist husband's baffling mood swings and penchant for storing military grade weapons in their closet. LE TRAIN sees our leads hiding out in depserate fear on a freight car carrying them away from Nazi occupied Europe. And STILL the guy never smiled? Not my Pick.
John Ford and Edward G. Robinson got their sole opportunity to work together on THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, which sees Eddie G. portray not only an honest bank clerk but his doppelganger bank robber.
Wait! Don't stop reading! There actually is a whole slew of Xmas cheer on the revival circuit this month, in the form of Dickens adaptations, perennial holiday faves and Jimmy Stewart finding Zuzu's petals. I just couldn't resist noting the coincidence of concurrently booked tributes to bleak unspooling this holiday season at BAM, Film Forum and MOMA. So if you happen to run into Charles Silver or Bruce Goldstein, hugs. Trust.
Sam Peckinpah reveals his inner trucker with this cash-in on the hit novelty tune that was a cash-in on the short-lived CB craze that took America by storm, and then receded back south where it remains their primary form of communication. Sorry, it was just waiting there.
Roman Polanski just won't learn his lesson. TESS screens for a week at the Film Forum. Not today's Pick.
The sound of your oil painting disturbs Max Von Sydow in HOUR OF THE WOLF, screening at BAM as part of their tribute to the Spruce Goose. No offense but definitely not my Pick today.
Bunuel's DISCREET CHARM and Leone's AMERICA continue their week long runs at their respective venues for the next couple of days, and they are giants of not only both men's CV but the lexicon of modern cinema as well. I bypass these works of genius.