Zorba the Greek
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Movie Reviews of Zorba the Greek
Movie Review: Wow!
Summary: 5 Stars
Basil, an English writer caught up in orderliness ("I write essays") meets up with Zobra, a Greek with a huge lust for life. Basil hires Zorba to help him restart a mine he inherrited, and Zorba teaches Basil to get more out of life. It's more than a typical buddy scenario - the lessons are clearly only one way, and they're not always good ones.
There are several strong points in the movie. The humor is frequently dark, and not sanitized hollywood. The Buddhist undercurrents and morality are shown, lightly told, but no over-preachy. And rather than present a purely rosy picture of "living large" the darker sides are also explored.
It's a great movie, certainly worthy of the oscars it won, and perhaps it deserved a few more.
Movie Review: Zorba the Greek
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, the multiple Oscar-winning "Zorba" is all about Quinn's indelible, galvanic performance. A bon vivant who exhorts Basil to "loosen your belt and go find trouble", Zorba is a hurricane of manic energy and strapping muscularity, but also great tenderness. Bates portrays the cerebral, sissyish Basil with perfect restraint, while Oscar winner Kedrova (as ailing French hotelier Mme. Hortense) and Eleni Anousaki (as a stunningly gorgeous widow) provide excellent support as doomed love interests. Zesty and passionate, even in its darkest half-hour, Cacoyannis's "Zorba" is an irresistibly salty portrait of Greek life.Movie Review: A timeless ode to the friendship and savoir vivre!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a marvelous rousing drama set in Creta . Anthony Quinn migh well have done the best role of his life . He gave to this performance an unreachable level of magnetism , vitality and credibilty that literally he became Zorba for the rest of his life . Irene Papas as a young widow is glamorous too and obviously this super actor named Alan Bates . The dazzling direction of Michael Cacoyanis made of this film one of the timeless triumphs of the universal cinema.
Unforgettable!
Movie Review: A model for a real man
Summary: 5 Stars
If asked for the top 10 American films of all time, this would be on my list. Anthony Quinn (actually a Mexican) plays Zorba, an elderly Greek man of vast experience and a multitude of adventures, who refuses to let age weaken or slow him down. When Zorba meets an English academic of Greek ancestry, he determines to save him from a life of timidity and mediocrity, while they develop a coal mine on the island Crete. But in a real sense, Zorba tries to reach out to the audience of this film and save us all.Movie Review: Life Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Tonight I watched this classic film once more with an introduction by Elmo Williams. If you did not like this film, it is because you did not understand it. Perhaps the best way to explain it would be to say that it takes at least three times to really "get" the film. Throw in a few tragedies of your own, and you might begin to understand that this film is about LiFE, the good, the bad, the unexplainable. When life gets you down, watch this movie, drink a glass of ouzo and then get on with it.