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...Clockmaker; The Judge and the Assassin) has enhanced the chilling irony of Jim Thompson's Southern-gothic novel Pop. 1280 by setting it in the blazing heat of French colonial Africa circa 1938. His script, written with Jean Aurenche, has a way of sneaking brutal truths home in comic forms that range from the bon mot to the shaggy-dog story. The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket...
...movie should never have been posthumously completed, out of respect for Peter Sellers. This is actually a surprisingly common criticism, and it's usually followed by: "He would've wanted it that way." But who knows what Peter Sellers would've wanted? The point is, the guy was a comic genius. It would have been a crying shame to waste the 45 minutes of hysterical new material that Sellers taped before his death--or, for that matter, the nuggets of previously unused sequences that compose the film's second half...
...NIRO PLAYS a squat Harvard graduate named Cecil. He lumbers about on the screen without true motivations. He misses a comic timing in his actions consequently making his performance staff and unresponsive. His performance--as well as Clayburgh's--makes one appreciate the more recent acting performances, but does little for The Wedding Party...
...somewhat bewildered by your page 2 article "No More Punchlines" (Jan. 6). Nobody has ever asked me about my inhaling and exhaling, a question Mr. Miller seems to think is universal on campus. But more importantly. I was disturbed by the emphasis The Crimson puts on a comic strip, and not a very good one at that...
...Road Warrior. An apocalypse for the car culture: the good guys have the gasoline, the bad guys own the autos. The violence is glancing, but stings; the vision is dark and hot-rod fast. Australian Director George Miller's socko comic strip is also a textbook of sophisticated film making...