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...gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine's rakish advances. Both Geraldine Chaplin and Shelley Duvall are wasted in limiting characters that flirt with the stereotypical throughout the film; in any case, it is not the acting that makes Nashville, but rather Altman's perfection of the difficult slice-of-life narrative structure, The gratuitous conclusion turned this stomach during the initial screening, but it fails to ruin an otherwise brilliant work of art--the ultimate testimony to the genius of the preceding 150 minutes. Incidentally, try to make it on time, because the opening credits...
...Slice of Bread. The system consists of a lightweight, fully automatic camera and a viewing box (both made for Polaroid by an Austrian firm) with a 12-in. TV-like screen, and film-loaded cassettes. The cassette, containing 42 ft. of super 8-size film for nearly three minutes of shooting, is slipped into the camera, exposed, removed and dropped into the viewer like a slice of bread into a toaster. In 90 seconds, the film is processed as it is rewound inside the cassette before being projected on the screen in full color. The cassette then pops...
Whatever the costs, most illegals are determined to have their slice of paradise and nothing shakes their resolve...
Rudolph's debut feature Welcome to L.A. deserves a couple of critics' stars on guts alone: he has consciously borrowed the impressionistic slice-of-life framework of Nashville and made it work with even less of a plot than Robert Altman's cinematic paradigm. Granted that the basically uncommercial quality of the format has been somewhat offset by the presence of a galaxy of New Hollywood actors; but from a strictly critical standpoint, Rudolph has effectively invited comparisons with his famous mentor that would seem to place his first major work at an almost fatal disadvantage. Yet Welcome...
...will be a long and difficult one. Many of the issues preoccupying Washington during the week are converging -in some cases unexpectedly-on the White House. Meanwhile, outside, the sunny morning will slide into a dark and wet afternoon, though occasional bold rays of sunlight will slice through the tumbling clouds and bathe the budding treetops above the south lawn in startling shades of gold...