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Without question, the real star of this movie is the city of Gotham itself. As envisioned by production designer Anton Furst, it seems to be part Transylvania castle, part Star Wars fantasy, part comic book, but mostly a decaying caricature of Manhattan island. The city is covered in shadow and smog. Any superhero who hung out there long enough would inevitably become a bit deranged, but fortunately Batman (Michael Keaton) has a head start...
This weekend the Harvard Film Archive at the Carpenter Center celebrates the world of Romanian film with a two-part series honoring recent Romanian film makers. On Friday, Jacob, directed by Mircea Daneliuc, presents the stroy of a gold miner in Transylvania. Jacob was shown at the New York Film Festival this year and received international acclaim. It will be shown at 7 p.m. and again on Saturday...
Dracula, however, just would not be the same without a classic Transylvania drawl. Tom Hale has mastered this but somehow denuded it of his coldness. Despite the cape, he would not be out of place at an international students' party. Still, there is some bite in his performance, which improves steadily as the play goes...
...growing number of ordinary Hungarians, one-third of whom have relatives in Transylvania, called for more decisive action. With the approval of reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev, Budapest endorsed vitriolic attacks on the Ceausescu regime in the semi-official press. In January the Hungarian government legalized the status of the refugees already spilling across the border; two months later parliament voted $6 million to pay for resettlement programs in cooperation with church groups and the Hungarian Red Cross...
...severe housing shortage and growing unemployment, officials fear that public opinion could turn against the emigres. Says Gabor, a teenage Budapest mechanic: "Why should they get jobs and apartments when we don't have enough for ourselves?" With no sign that Rumania intends to rescind its policies in Transylvania, the refugees may soon become not only a foreign policy issue but a domestic political problem for their new hosts as well...