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Director Lou Lombardo, making his first feature, is a former film editor who cut The Wild Bunch and a great many of Robert Altman's movies. Like Altman, he knows how to catch an audience unawares, how to embellish and tantalize. A good example of Lombardo's expeditious, off-angle characterization is his introduction of a character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves...
Weymouth, will adorn Longleat House in Wiltshire, one of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, whose stately grounds were laid out by the legendary landscape architect Capability Brown. "Maze King" Bright, as he is known in Britain, will embellish Longleat with a lakefront, three-dimensional maze of yew hedges and no fewer than six covered bridges. The maze, when completed in several years, will be open to the public, but its secret, Bright has sworn, will be known only to himself and the Lord of Longleat...
...madness from the first. It took months to convince Francis Coppola to do another Godfather at all. He demanded that it be not a sequel but an extension of the original, which Coppola would embellish considerably. Now he dreams of some day cutting both features together into a single huge family epic. He also wanted to have Marlon Brando in just one scene of Part II. Brando refused, not because of the film, but because he was furious at Paramount Executive Frank Yablans, who was furious at him for rejecting the Oscar...
...theory seems simplistic, Rather and Gates nevertheless embellish it with fresh details of the intrigue around Nixon and new White House anecdotes. Haldeman, they claim, cemented his relationship with Nixon in 1961 by bolstering the then defeated candidate's shattered ego through weeks of patient listening and encouragement as Nixon labored over Six Crises. It is ironic, then, that the authors finally blame Haldeman for the act that ultimately finished Nixon: the secret taping of White House conversations. It was Haldeman's idea, they suggest, that after Nixon finished his second term, the tapes would be carefully edited...
...movie is a collaboration between the director and his wife Margarethe von Trotta, who worked on the screenplay and who appears as Elisabeth, a performance of wonderfully explicit compassion. Trotta is able to seize on a well-observed moment, embellish it and build on it without ever becoming extravagant or false. Her uncommon artistry gives A Free Woman a strong and generative center. ∎ Jay Cocks