Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Tango in Paris 9:40, weekends 5:10; A Streetcar Named Desire 7:35, weekends...
Last Tango in Paris 9:40; weekends at 5:10; A Streetcar Named Desire 7:35, weekends...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Mass transit at last. In the primary election in Illinois last week, a mass-transit proposal rode to victory while former U.S. Attorney Dakin Williams failed in his second bid for a Senate seat. He once said of an opponent, Roman C. Pucinski: "Poochie? The only thing he could be is Stanley Kowalski in the greatest American play ever written--A Streetcar Named Desire by my brother, Tennessee Williams, the greatest playwright who ever lived...
...last, it's becoming just another movie. Seeing Last Tango on the double bill at Harvard Square, even with such a distinguished film as Streetcar, seems a lot like seeing a sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly...
...destructive to both movies to show them together but on the other hand it's good for Last Tango in Paris to be seen opposite another masterpiece--especially another one starring Brando. The comparison won't be fair, though. A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most firmly entrenched American plays, loved by the public and critics alike. Last Tango in Paris still hasn't found its niche, it's still a cult film or a sex film or whatever depending on your point of view. People still don't know how to react. But maybe in a year...