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...production, directed by Simon Curtis, is spare and uncompromising. Black-and-white shots of a rainy New York City in the 1950s punctuate the scenes. Anne Bancroft, as the mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want...
Michelango Antonioni's "L'Avventura" has been called one of the 10 best films of all time (International Critics Poll, Sight and Sound), a boring film about boredom (John Simon) and, in Antonioni's own words, "a mystery film in reverse," but, to this reviewer's knowledge, it has not yet been called the ultimate slacker film...
...first time, everyone in the English department will have an office," says Professor of Germanic Philology Eckehard Simon, a member of the humanities quad planning committee...
...best memoirs tell us not only where and with whom the author has spent his time in the past but also what kind of person he has become in the process. On the first count, Ned Rorem's Knowing When to Stop (Simon & Schuster; 607 pages; $30) is the scintillating chronicle of how a gifted, remarkable, good- looking young man from the Midwest grew into a leading American composer, one of our finest craftsmen of art songs. On the second count, the book is profoundly exasperating...
...Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, a three-hour multimedia performance work that requires a cast of 50. The first half is an interpretative summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the horrors of slavery, using both narrative and mime. (In the racially mixed company, Simon Legree is often played, ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease is God's punishment for homosexuality, conducted between...