Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dress and wig. The stage is framed by two skeletal, metallic walls that recede almost to a vanishing point. In the final scene, when Lulu has ended up as a prostitute in a London attic, the walls suggest the street below, but they also suggest the desolate, fateful corridor down which Lulu has been careening all along...
...Croisette after a lucky evening at the roulette tables. As the elevator doors let him out on the fourth floor, two sportily dressed young men-one described as a tall, blond European, the other as a slighter, darker man who could have been North African-pounced from the corridor. After a scuffle and a shot, the Palestinian was left dying with a .32-cal. bullet in his head...
...Crazy (1949), a Bonnie-and-Clyde-inspired story, screens this Friday. Shock Corridor (1963) will be screened on Thursday...
...Shock Corridor was written and directed by Samuel Fuller, whose work--confoundingly--is seldom shown around Boston...
...pulp-writer's sense of poetry, an incredibly imaginative and powerful manipulation of cutting rhythms and camera movement--and a wide streak of sadism. His films have been highly influential to Godard, among others, whose praise and tribute has lifted Fuller to a sort of cult status. Shock Corridor--starring no one you've ever heard of before--concerns a journalist who, in hopes of earning a Pulitzer prize, disguises himself as a patient in an insane asylum to discover the identity of a murderer hiding there. Other patients include a nuclear physicist, a Tennessee boy convinced...