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Movie Critic Review: Zorba The Greek (1964)

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" All right, we go outside where God can see us better." Alexis Zorba "God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive; [slaps table] if a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me." Alexis Zorba --------------------------------   Zorba (Anthony Quinn) with a lascivious look lays the gentle order, ' Two beds Madam. Without bugs! ' Mme Hortense defiantly tilts her head and answers proudly, ' Mme has not THE bugs! ' Anthony Quinn The bookish intellectual Basil  (Alan Bates)  who  has appeared unaffected  by  the collective vertigo experienced on the boat taking them to Crete,  did not seem interested in this outward  and stimulated first-time exchange between his newly-found companion, a robust natural philosopher named Alexis Zorbas and this old  lady who rushed  Lila Kedrova to offer them her  hospitality services in her own ( Marriot ) of a d...

Movie Critic Review: 8½ (1963)

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How To Concieve The Make believe          "All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be." Guido "Memories show so little respect"  Guido at the Cardinal's Dreams, childhood memories and fantasy complicated by abundance of visual unfamiliarities. These are the constitutuents of what is deemed one of Federico Fellini's most influential cinematic achievements, the art movie (8½) Eight And A Half which ranks among the best films made in a hundred years of cinema. Some of the most acclaimed films in cinema history are Fellini's. Also a brilliant script-writer, Fellini has influenced many of the world class filmmakers and is one of the 50 most important movie directors. Employing the technique of 'Stream of Consciousness' imported from literary narration, Fellini weaves events with their emotional equivalents and designs his imagery to reflect the rea...