Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces (top); Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton, The Constant Nymph (middle); Jean Seberg, Breathless (bottom) Bob Rafelson‘s biting social critique Five Easy Pieces (1970), starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black; Adrian Brunel‘s silent romantic drama The Constant Nymph (1928), a tale of "forbidden love" starring stage and movie idol Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton; and Jean-Luc Godard‘s New Wave classic Breathless (1959), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, are some of the features to be screened on Friday, Aug. 20, at London’s bfi Southbank. Five Easy Pieces remains one of the most impressive accomplishments of the more mature Hollywood cinema of the ’70s, with Jack Nicholson and Karen Black delivering relentlessly raw performances. It’s unfortunate that American cinema, now senile, is going through its second infancy. In other words, movies such as Five Easy Pieces hardly ever get made — if they get made at all. Even...
- 8/19/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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