David and Lisa
by Frank Perry
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Actor: Clifton James, Howard Da Silva, Janet Margolin, Keir Dullea, Neva PattersonDirector: Frank Perry
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Leonard Hirschfield
Editor: Irving Oshman
Producer: Lee R. Bobker
Producer: Paul M. Heller
Writer: Eleanor Perry
Writer: Theodore Isaac Rubin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of David and Lisa
Movie Review: 1962 Poignant Classic and Frank Perry's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
David and Lisa, the film they used to show on the late late show in the '70s, at least on New York TV, remains a moving timeless classic and features outstanding performances by Keir Dullea as David, Janet Margolin as Lisa, and Howard Da Silva as Dr. Alan Swinford. Based on a novel by Psychologist Theodore Isaac Rubin it follows David as he enters a school for disturbed teens.
The filmaking is done in the European new wave black-and-white cinematic style of the time (though it's American).
Dr. Swinford uses a humanistic approach, really the opposite of what mainstream psychiatry has become. For him the solution is to open up one's feelings as opposed to making one oblivious with psychotropic drugs as is the norm today.
Anyway we find that David is very intelligent though he has some severe phobias: touch, death, etc. He meets Lisa, someone with multiple personality disorder her alter-ego called Muriel. The film turns into a love story between the two as they in effect end up curing each other. Through it all the sixties feel shines through as well as the acting, directing, writing (Eleanor Perry), and cinematography talents. Da Silva does a great job, and a great comeback role from the blacklisting period (due to the fascistic Robert Taylor). But again a rare excellence is attained by Dullea who went on to 2001 fame, and Janet Margolin. Shot in Philadelphia the final scene was done at the Art Museum. If I ever visit there it would be as a tribute to this film (not Rocky).
So if you're into great '60s cinema check this (one of my faves) out...but by any means necessary avoid the worthless Oprah version.
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