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...profligate-but images to tell his story. Yet Barry Lyndon lacks the experimental, hallucinatory visual quality that made 2001 a cultural touchstone of the tripped-out '60s. Kubrick has shot and edited Barry Lyndon with the classic economy and elegance associated with the best works of the silent cinema. The frantic trompe 1'oeil manner -all quick cuts and crazy angles-recently favored by ambitious film makers (and audiences) has been rigorously rejected...
...Cinema is the only way in which you can catch those fleeting moments which can not be seen exactly the same again," he added. "You can take your camera and look at people, who they are and how they behave...
...short walk up Mass Ave to the Orson Welles Complex (something many young starlets once had) is well worth it this weekend. On Sunday, Cinema 2 starts showing two of French director Claude Lelouch's films, one of which--And Now My Love--is a romantic gem. Lelouch, also responsible for A Man and A Woman, is bold enough to film a love affair and yet leave his main characters separated until the last frames. As he develops the lives of his two lovers, Lelouch also traces the history of France in the twentieth century. While his character's political...
Sweet Movie has no pretenses at plot, although it does make an attempt to chart the smarmy adventures of a certain Miss World 1984 (played by a lovely Canadian actress called Carole Laure). Future chroniclers of the humiliations inflicted on women in the cinema will find prime source material in Sweet Movie. En route to her exalted madness, Miss World is showered with golden urine from her new husband's gilded member; raped by a muscleman; packed into a valise and shipped to Paris, where she is raped again, this time by one El Macho, and sent out with...
Herzog, 33, is a sort of social anthropologist manqué who has been prominent in the perennially fizzling resurgence of the West German cinema. It has been suggested that in Every Man Herzog is struggling to create a new metaphor for the state of modern Germany. This is one of those facile, cover all apologies, like saying an Italian film is a thinly disguised attack on the Roman Catholic Church, or a novel about contemporary Ireland reflects the agonies of civil war. It cannot save the movie from indistinction...