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Even before any players appear on the Festival stage, the audience is confronted by balance in the form of Ed Wittstein's setting. In upstage center stands an imposing depressed segmental arch suggestive of some oversize fireplace. Its Ionic flanking columns hold up a gabled brick wall, with a set of cyma recta consoles supporting a three-arch window that sheds lambent light through its variegated diamond panes. Some distance to the right and left of this centerpiece are placed smaller diagonal arched doorways. When the garden scenes arrive, a section of brick wall and a bench roll in symmetrically...
...dissolves, the gross use of filters to turn day into night, are rarely used today. Moreover, the local color is often put in by rote, as when Milo philosophizes, "Cities 'n' houses . . . come between us 'n' God," or when George addresses the camera in an arch epilogue. Yet The Fool Killer remains valid for two reasons. In its picaresque exploration of a naive, vanished America, it meanders into the Twain tradition of American fiction. And in its stinging exploration of God-haunted gothic territory, it demonstrates that no ethnic group has ever had an exclusive hold...
Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year. 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...
...have just discovered that the historical establishment has suppressed a fact." The eyebrows arch, the mouth snaps into the inane puppet grin familiar from the back of cereal boxes. He is the professor...
...thrown in for good measure, People is a surrealistic practical joke on the audience. Characters contradict themselves, and individual scenes ricochet crazily off one another, effectively destroying most logic and all dramatic continuity. Out of this carefully crafted chaos comes a film that is by turns boring, arch and gratifyingly funny...