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There is more P. G. Wodehouse in The Do-Gooders than the deadly amoral wit of Bruce Jay Friedman or Joseph Heller. The true black humorists spring from Franz Kafka, Céline, James Joyce and Nathanael West. Imitations like this owe their origins to the pop-art Campbell soup cans, underground "art" movies, and the overpowering amplification systems that give rock music its driving force...
Rumanians have long had a sort of national crush on France. Though surrounded by Slavs, they claim direct descent from the Roman colonizers to whom they owe their Latin character...
...sources and location sets. A ubiquitous sunlight links the interiors to the outdoor shots much better than Demy's style is able to do and, as in his Lola and Baie des Anges, shines brightly through the entire film. Demy's style is a strange hybrid. The superb interiors owe much to Godard (Une Femme Est Une Femme, Le Mepris, Pierrot le Fou) and succeed in filling the cinemascope screen with inventive precision; on the other hand, the exteriors are derivative of American films (with shots lifted from Stanley Donen's Singing In The Rain and Nicholas Ray's Party...
SOMEWHERE on Cape Cod there are Indians who owe their salvation to Harvard...
Belligerence & Fun. The obvious intent was to involve the audience, much as Happenings and psychedelic rock try to do. Still, most of what Kraft had to say was musical. His style projected a cool blend of rich dissonance and easygoing lyricism, and though Contextures seemed to owe almost as much to Broadway and jazz as to Stravinsky, there was never any doubt who the Kraftsman...