Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good moments were too few and too far between, and even they were soured by embarrassing sequences such as the White Knight's and the Fawn's, both played by Ben Schatz, when the script, music and acting combined to explore the depths of gooey and contrived sentiment. The Fawn sequence was marred not so much by the flowery romanticism of the song as by the Fawn's weird behavior upon discovering that Alice is a human child. He runs off stage acting as if he were trying to keep himself from commiting an unnatural act, and only the most...
...know some wonderful part will come," she announces with all the awed conviction of a child who knows that Santa will come for Christmas. Her anticipation is boundless when she begins to read a new script--"even the mimeographed sheets smell good." The dark eyes dance; one suddenly sees the little six-year-old who danced in her nightgown before that mirror...
Before working on the show Borowitz had already garnered an impressive list of credits in Harvard comic theater. Last year he wrote the script of the Hasty Pudding show, "A Thousand Clones." He also kept himself busy directing his original show, "Gars and Goyles," a musical comedy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
...works equally well with actors and ideas. Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Interiors), though overly enraptured with the poetic uses of shadows, is one of the top craftsmen in American movies. There's only one wild card in this impressive pack: first-time Screenwriter Dennis Lynton Clark. His script is dry, but that does not absolve his colleagues from the responsibility of juicing...
Since Pakula's recent films have dealt with little guys battling huge conspiracies of money and power, it is easy to see why he was drawn to Clark's script. What is missing here is the director's usual skill at transforming abstract evil into a palpable and frightening force. Perhaps Pakula has been lulled by Horseman's bucolic landscapes, because his characteristic tension is missing here. In this director's best movies, he arouses terror and paranoia by making it impossible to separate heroes from villains until the end. This time around the cast...