Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Utamaro and his Five Women is not, unfortunately, one of Mizoguchi's best films, yet it exemplifies many of his most pressing themes and is certainly well worth seeing. Its greatest flaw is the lack of simple plot: five women is simply too many to keep track of properly. The artist Utamaro, in trouble with the government for offending a traditional school of art by proclaiming that his own work is superior, is handcuffed for sixty days and is unable to draw. He has tattoeed one of the women; when she runs away with a lover one of Utamaro...
...satire run infinitely wider--from D.W. Griffith to Bugs Bunny. Eisenstein to Erich Segal to Bogart. It is a movie made out of movies, and right from the opening credits presented as pages in a storybook. Bogdanovich wrings every cliche to its uttermost. Every gag, every twist of plot, has been aged in a thousand earlier uses...
...have managed to avoid being bitten by the opera bug and to whom the prospect of an evening at the Met is highly resistible. The shows cut down two Italian comic operas to half-hour nibbles, a drastic reducing plan that is still adequate for the skinny buffo plots. Sutherland trots out for a bow and a chat with the puppets and explains the story to them ("I have a bit of money, and he wants to marry me himself," she says, introducing Rossini's Barber of Seville). Then off she goes to act out key scenes, sing arias...
...young adult. Maass finds it hard to capture the personality of his diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) "Milli-Metternich." But he shows effectively how Dollfuss forced his "Christian corporate state" too suddenly into a totalitarian mold, basing his power on a single official party while socialists plotted on the left and Austrian Nazis on the right. Maass also demonstrates the appalling lack of official reaction when the government learned of the plot to overthrow it in July 1934. Austria had become such a "nation of informers," he says, that true warnings could hardly be distinguished from false...
...call for a job. He shows up at a local hotel, where he picks up a package from a fat man who resembles Falcon's Kasper Gutman (the Sidney Greenstreet character). Inside the package are a sizable bundle of money and a pistol. Eddie is plunged into a plot as intricate and confounding as The Big Sleep...