Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast, which included Stripteaser Rita Renoir as "Tart," entered against a background of a pile-driving rock-'n'-roll band, go-go girls, and slides of Picasso paintings projected on the backdrop. Tart got right down to business, stripped to the waist and shimmied around wildly, while the rest of the ensemble cavorted about in a grotesque little dance...
...internal suspense is fitfully hinted at by an occasional scream in Raskolnikov's mind, a staged hallucination or a spiderweb backdrop. But these are only in use sporadically and with a touch of embarrassment. They neither interfere nor work. Glaser is a skilled actor with a tormented voice and a hauntng face, but he doesn't have the time or the lines to hone the play into form with the tension of mind...
Against the backdrop of Paris, MacLaine plays everything from a bitchy bourgeoise to a nudist nymph. In one sequence, she is Paulette, grieving as she leads her husband's funeral cortege to the cemetery. Comforting her is Peter Sellers, who tries to cut a path through the widow's weeds by promising her the world. At last Paulette succumbs. When the mourners reach a fork in the road, she and Sellers peel off to the left as the scandalized funeral procession proceeds to the right...
Courage for Every Day. Two lovers meet on a hilltop. In a scene reminiscent of Room at the Top, the camera shows waves of grass rippling idyllically -then cuts to another angle to show the backdrop of an ugly industrial town behind them. The film message is that there is room at the bottom for workers who still believe in the drab clichés of doctrinaire Communism. As the film's central figure, Jan Kačer plays a slogan-spouting, blockheaded factory worker -a model product of the Stalinist old regime. Representing the newer, more relaxed style...
...year-old Nureyev, on the other hand, still triumphs through personal magnetism and the passionate abandon of his spectacularly athletic portrayals. As Adam in the first New York performance of Roland Petit's acrobatic modern parable, Paradise Lost, he bounced, somersaulted and writhed with fiery grace against a backdrop of pop-art settings-and at one point took a breathtaking dive between the painted lips on a huge poster of Eve's face (TIME, March 3). "He keeps revealing new sides," said Bruhn. "Paradise Lost is a new medium for him, very good...