Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no doubt that Jacques Tati has the spirit of an artist. A short subject accompanying Playtime shows him to be generally observant and thoughtful, not only about his own film making but also about the world around him and the people with whom he shares it. Unfortunately, he lacks the artist's talent to mold and shape his insights into truly engaging works. This film-made in 1968 but delayed in release here until a satisfactory 35-mm. print could be made from his 70-mm. original-is almost as stupefying as his more recent Traffic (TIME...
McGuane's own trademark is the monstrous practical joke that is at the center of all his books. In The Sporting Club, a demonic hoax-artist contrived to destroy an exclusive hunt club in northern Michigan. The Bushwhacked Piano contained a lunatic scheme to cash in on antipesticide sentiment by selling tall towers stocked with insect-eating bats...
...favorite writers include Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck ("Someone else no one will admit was any good") plus Turgenev, Chekhov and Knut Hamsun. The depth of McGuane's reading can be seen in the sophistication of his prose. "I have been sloppy in my approach to being an artist," he says, "but one thing I will say for myself: I read like a son-of-a-bitch...
...Independent and partial to hippies, Getty rarely even slept in the apartment of his mother, former Actress Gail Getty Jeffries, 39, who divorced the boy's father, Eugene Paul Getty, and has since been remarried and separated. Instead, he would find a bed in the apartment of an artist friend or, more recently, in the flat of two 24-year-old German twins, Martine Zacher and Jutta Zacher Winkelmann...
...once happy marriage; Andreas, the humanitarian, is incapable of communicating with anybody; Elis, the photographer, has catalogued every twisted emotion registered on the human face; his wife is locked in insomnia. Intermittently Bergman breaks the narrative as the actors digress on the parts they play -- the work of the artist carries its own stamp of absurdity. Brattle...