Peter Bart: Forgotten Classics And Sixties Softies Revived Amid Pandemic Purgatory

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Now that we’re entering Year 2 of our pandemic purgatory, here’s at least one positive takeaway: We’re coming to terms with our past — our movie past, that is. Two films circa 1951 and 1966 r…

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, also after a 50-year absence. Wallowing in the ’60s, only Ruth Gordon would be sharing weed with her teenage lover, Bud Cort, while Cat Stevens sings “Where Will the Children Play?” in the background.Full disclosure: I was present at the creation of, even bought the script by Colin Higgins, then a pool cleaner. And set up the meeting between Hal Ashby, the director, and his soon-to-be-best friend, Cat Stevens, who was really Steve Georgiou, soon to become Yusaf Islam.

Deftly avoiding the conceits of the ’60s, some pandemic escapees have turned to more orthodox cures for ennui.endures as a sort of cinematic chicken soup — a remedy as much as a movie. For that matter, so does. On the other hand, fervid cineastes find comfort by revisiting and dozing off at Palme d’Or winners –is equally demanding. Still, columnist Maureen Dowd, a movie buff, admires the scene in which Peter O’Toole, draped in his Bedouin robes, describes the act of killing.

In contrast, it was Francis Coppola, a cineaste of different background, who put me onto Vittorio De Sica’s overlooked classicA Place in the SunSubscribe to

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Peter O'Toole. Omar Sharif. None better.

Quite valid, but you should've used another movie to illustrate the story. Lawrence of Arabia certainly isn't forgotten.

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