I am compelled to write by the ridiculous review in today’s NYTimes. This is perhaps the finest film, along with the recent “Das Leben der Anderen,” to depict the bleakest times during the “Cold War.” Director Martin Ritt brings an unrelenting grit that leaves one wondering if there really was any difference between life in the “East” and life in the “West.” One of Burton’s great performances particularly as paired with the utterly naive yet lovely Claire Bloom. I hear Burton from his later performance in Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of V Woolf?” “Total war?” and Martha’s response: “TOTAL.” Such was the time of “Spy Who Came In From The Cold.”
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold over 3 years ago
I am compelled to write by the ridiculous review in today’s NYTimes. This is perhaps the finest film, along with the recent “Das Leben der Anderen,” to depict the bleakest times during the “Cold War.” Director Martin Ritt brings an unrelenting grit that leaves one wondering if there really was any difference between life in the “East” and life in the “West.” One of Burton’s great performances particularly as paired with the utterly naive yet lovely Claire Bloom. I hear Burton from his later performance in Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of V Woolf?” “Total war?” and Martha’s response: “TOTAL.” Such was the time of “Spy Who Came In From The Cold.”
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