Film

Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
 

Ulysses (1967)

Director: Joseph Strick

3
Average user rating
1 review

Movie review

From Time Out London

Banned in Ireland until this decade – as if in honour of James Joyce’s similarly treated source novel – blacklisted director Joseph Strick’s 1967 adaptation presents a pretty picture of garrulous and gabby 1960s Dublin. That said, the sacred poetry of the 1904-set novel is much muted. As a director, Strick, this month the subject of a Barbican retrospective, veered from the sober to the fanciful, and in this film his care and fidelity tend to shroud the action in a cloak of sepulchral reverence as he charts the wanderings of Jewish ad man Leopold Bloom. Nevertheless, there’s much to appeal in this miniature odyssey, notably the superb black-and-white location work of ‘Get Carter’ lensman Wolfgang Suschitzky and the seductive turns of a range of Irish, American and British players, headed by Milo O’Shea’s innocent drifter and Barbara Jefford’s adulterous ‘armful’, Molly.

Author: Wally Hammond 2009-11-17 12:07:13

Time Out London Issue 2048: 19-25 November, 2009

  • Print this page
  • Send to a friend

User reviews of this film

What do you think?
Post your review now

clear rating
Min 1 star. Zero stars will be treated as unrated.

*mandatory fields


Ulysses

Cast & crew

Director: Joseph Strick

Producer: Joseph Strick

Cast: Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, TP McKenna, Anna Manahan, Maureen Potter, Martin Dempsey full cast

Duration: 132 mins


Features

Making a name for himself

Making a name for himself

Sin Nombre's Cary Joji Fukunaga learned his lessons well.

To the letter

Forty years later, Costa-Gavras's Z still brims with fury.

Mind over matter

David Cronenberg reflects on a most bizarre body: his own corpus of work.

Fool's gold

Can an Oscar win lead to a cursed career? Here are five stories of postaward professional meltdowns.

We are the championed

Terrorists and teens abound in this year's "Film Comment Selects."

A history of violence

Matteo Garrone's kaleidoscopic Gomorrah wallops you with Italy's crime crisis.

True romantic

James Gray exchanges urban amorality for amour in Two Lovers.

Playing in the dark

MoMA salutes pianist Stuart Oderman's 50 years as the one-man sound of silents.

Junk bonds

Cast and crew recall the making of the classic NYC drug drama The Panic in Needle Park.