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...between us and the characters that the gap becomes unbridgeable. That is why we admire Padre Padrone without being engaged by it, and care more about the filmmakers' achievements than we do about what happens to the hero. Like other such oddities as Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad or Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, Padre Padrone is a dead movie whose novel cinematic vocabulary will survive the corpse...
Hiroshima Mon Amour. A "you are there" look at August 8, 1945, in Peace Square. Sort of a mixture of War Games and Last Year at Marienbad--a wordless, one-night love affair takes place against the background of documentary footage of Hiroshima. Resnais is not being profound or fascinating in a verbal way, but the film has deep pull, like a strong undertow. It will always be "One million degrees in Peace Square...
Resnais's Stavisky is a cold film--a bored film, I think--without the cerebral pleasures of Resnais's earlier experiments in film technique, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, although traces of the narrative trademarks worked out in those films persist into this one. House of All Nations, for all the up-to-date sound of its "Credo," was written in 1936; it was an examination of a phenomenon that still existed. Stavisky is nostalgia for two things--first, for the eternal appeal of the rogue, the high-energy, affable cheap who spends more money than...
...suggest that the swindler and the Communist here represent in effect the two political alternatives between which the country had to choose. This notion remains unwieldy as a device and unresolved as an idea. Resnais does not fracture his time structure nearly so much as in Last Year at Marienbad or Muriel. Stavisky achieves a kind of glacial elegance. If it is not among the director's very best, it is at least a welcome return to form...
THURSDAY: Valley of the Dolls. 1967. A movie that makes the average soap opera look like "Last Year at Marienbad." Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon (Manson victim) Tate flounder through the slings and arrows of this outrageous melodrama like wounded animals. Worst movie of the sixties award. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...