Clancy Sigel
Clancy Sigel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
The Spectator
Movies reviews only
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[Lina Braake is an] understated, gently funny German film about an eighty-one-year-old lady who swindles the bank which evicted her from her apartment. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 29, 2020
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Obsession (1976) |
Obsession is a laughably bad film. So bad, in fact, that it becomes almost interesting to speculate on why all the critical enthusiasm. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 29, 2020
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Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) |
[A] cheap, ugly film. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 29, 2020
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Cooley High (1975) |
A tender and shrewd look at Chicago high school kids in the 1960s. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 26, 2019
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Orca (1977) |
And so, encouraged by someone in the film company once having read a comic-strip version of Melville, Orca slides inexorably down to a sea of slosh where Moby Dick and other symbolic mammals lurk. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 26, 2019
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A Star Is Born (1976) |
The dialogue is surpassingly mawkish, and Barbra Streisand's performance is a non-stop aria of self-regarding cuteness. In short, A Star Is Born is a real stinkeroo which wastes a potentially good idea. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 03, 2018
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Rocky (1976) |
The power of Rocky lies in its audacity in breaking free of currently fashionable despair and paranoia in order to shout from the rooftops: "The American Dream works!" - The Spectator
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| Posted Feb 28, 2018
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Fellini's Casanova (1976) |
Fellini's Casanova held me for its entire two hours and forty-three minutes. - The Spectator
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| Posted Dec 11, 2017
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King Kong (1976) |
However much we laughed, I resented the film's tendency to nudge and wink at us. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 14, 2017
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The Marquise of O... (1976) |
What is unarguable is Rohmer's mastery of the discreetly erotic. - The Spectator
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| Posted May 03, 2016
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Pumping Iron (1977) |
This kind of sweetly numbskull arrogance is cleverly caught by Pumping Iron which depicts Mr Olympia as a beauty, not body, contest. - The Spectator
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| Posted Feb 16, 2016
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) |
It's good clean British fun. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 23, 2015
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The Devil's Playground (1976) |
An outstandingly good Australian import. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 23, 2015
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Nasty Habits (1976) |
Nasty Habits is both too cute, a radical-chic Going My Way, and too timid. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 23, 2015
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The Late Show (1977) |
The Late Show is the best picture in town, the nicest takeoff on 1940s private eye films since Gumshoe. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 23, 2015
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F for Fake (1973) |
I enjoyed every dubious minute of this bit of hanky-panky. - The Spectator
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| Posted Oct 11, 2015
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) |
Nauseated and shaken, I walked out of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre after half an hour of its butchery. - The Spectator
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| Posted Sep 28, 2015
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Carrie (1976) |
Carrie won't add much to your life -- but it will scare you, not least about your friends and neighbours. - The Spectator
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| Posted Sep 27, 2015
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Two Minute Warning (1976) |
In applauding the military tactics of the SWAT anti-terrorist squad, the picture justifies a kind of war psychology for civilians. - The Spectator
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| Posted Sep 27, 2015
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Sweeney! (1977) |
Thaw, and Joe Melia as an East End crook, do their best but are knee-capped by a witless script. - The Spectator
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| Posted Sep 27, 2015
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Effi Briest (2009) |
It's so visually boring, insanely talkative, arrogantly formalistic. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 04, 2015
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Viva Knievel! (1977) |
If you're into a giggle Viva Knievel! may appall but I don't think will bore you. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 04, 2015
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The Devil, Probably (1977) |
Despite Bresson's characteristic evenness of tone and technical curtness -- his trademark is an almost contemptuous dismissal of flashiness -- I felt involved and moved by his pessimistic picture of four young French students. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 21, 2015
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) |
It is competently if not brilliantly mounted, moderately exciting and charmingly capable of poking fun at itself... It's a lot less patronising than most Disney films and toweringly better than the other blockbusters around at the moment. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 23, 2015
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
Obviously [Spielberg] had a ball with Close Encounters, and his pleasure in tinkertoying it together makes it enjoyable, mildly funny and -- in one sequence -- even credible. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Spite Marriage (1929) |
There's still enough inspired joy in this old film to make most current comedies look feebly unoriginal. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Silent Movie (1976) |
What disconcerts me about Mr Brooks is his obviousness, the lack of any true surprise in his gags. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Norman... Is That You? (1976) |
Rather sweet. And funny. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Network (1976) |
Network is neither fair nor modest. It's full of bile, travesty, scolding -- and wry humour. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 27, 2015
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973) |
Extraordinarily, Zeffirelli has made a beautiful and simple film. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 11, 2015
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Faustine et le bel été (Faustine and the Beautiful Summer) (1972) |
Well-directed and quite perceptive. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 11, 2015
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Black Sunday (1977) |
John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday did not convince or move me, even in its occasional tense moments. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 11, 2015
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Annie Hall (1977) |
I think It's his best picture so far, and I hope that audiences will enjoy his drily aggressive, despairingly narcissistic humour as much as I did. - The Spectator
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| Posted Mar 11, 2015
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