The Golden Coach
- You saw a teeming, colorful picture that was a beautiful sight.
- It was curiously hollow and meaningless.
- Anna Magnani was a lusty and lumpy termagant with raucous vitality wasted on a shrieking laugh at lame gags.
Shoeshine
- The film was a neorealist deeply devastating look at two boyish swindlers who are usually among those corrupted and corroded by circumstances.
- De Sica and others had cried out in pain against the terrible outrage committed by the powerful impersonal forces set against the post WWII Roman poor.
Breathless
- It was devoid of moral tone. It had a sordid view of the savage ways and moods of the rootless young of Europe.
- A cruel punk going nowhere in a couple of murky days did so in a vicious manner with ragged relations in regard to the world.
- The girl was imperious to morality or sentiment. She was cold, shrewd, and a self-defensive animal in a glittering, glib, irrational, and heartless world.
- The film's venom was in full force then and, later, youth could very well find themselves in a more poisonous milieu.
West Side Story
- This was nothing short of a cinema masterpiece, a rich artistic whole. The dances had sweep and vitality. There was a pulsing persistence of rhythm. The drama was valid and had integrity.
- The candy-store owner screams - You kids make this world lousy! When will you stop? It was a cry to be heard by all sympathetic and thoughtful Americans.
- It presented what was a staggering waste of the energy of youth.
Jules and Jim
- Arch and arty it was.
- It was about the perversities of enigmatic and evasive woman in a continual and babbling flow.
- Emotional content of the film was lodged in the score. You heard, too, long conversations and intrusive commentary.
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