Word: weirdness
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...final game that still has him wondering. Frankle played his usual Sicilian defense, but a weird position developed. "As far as I was concerned I was playing on my own after move three," he said...
...This is the story of a city, a portrait of Rome," Fellini's voice instructs as the credits flash by, "a mixture of strange, contradictory images." If only it were. There are two sequences that are virtuoso feats even by Fellini's elaborate standards: a weird, bloody and cacophonous entrance into a rainy nighttime Rome along a crowded highway, and a boisterous, affectionate re-creation of a night in a music hall during World War II, the audience far more vigorous and creative than the amateur talent passing in review. Fellini is at his best here, which makes...
Otherwise the story is a promising crime caper, involving the theft of millions of dollars worth of wine. Condon's throwaway lines have all their old weird wonder. Any one of the enormities he assigns to his characters at the rate of three a page would have fueled a complete farce. Jangling together they achieve only a certain frenzy, and give the odd impression of a man shouting desperately to avoid hearing something...
Boggs, divorced from his, occasionally picks up hookers of indeterminate gender. Once in a while these characterizations swerve close to caricature, like the movie itself. But Hickey and Boggs is one of those weird, not wholly successful genre films that, for their general vigor and many individual virtues, end up being a great deal more engaging than the typical big-budget Hollywood behemoth...
...village housing like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four: "It's very strange to be taken through unfinished corridors to a barren room furnished with three cots, a chest, a table and some chairs, a telly and then, after looking through an uncurtained window and seeing a weird townscape, having a bloke in a German army uniform tell me: 'Velcome to der Olympic Village.' This is supposed to be a village...