Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such circumstances, and with such a play, I still expect more from performers than what the Harvard Yard Palyers give out. Bernard Holmberg's Andy is not natively charming or self-aware enough to express put-on charm, coming off more as a preppie make-out artist, though the essential sanity of his role makes Holmberg look good against the other two nincompoops. Stephen Benson's Norman isn't comically awkward, just awkward; to be interested in him at all as a character we'd have to see his writing, and Benson can't move well enough to compensate...
HITCHCOCK doesn't work with the aspirations of an artist, and I think any of his real achievements may be racked up as happy accidents. There is a thin line in entertainment between sensual indulgence and out-and-out voyeurism; an artist transcends these categories by the necessities of his statement or his vision, but the showman has to rely on his taste, and when Hitchcock has consciously worked on the level of a thrill-show con-man--as in The Birds--he's been at his worst...
Contempt...or Godard, the master of pretension, with a big budget to play around with and a Moravia short story to demolish. With Pierrot le Fou, a self-serving and clumsy Godard comic-book romance, with a naive artist-gangster as the hero, and topical references sprinkled throughout to no great purpose. ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO. Call...
Sometimes surrealistically. He spoke of the modern artist who tried to cut off his ear with an electric razor, the Eskimo crooner who sang Night and Day for six months at a time-and the twelve fugitives from a chain gang who escaped by posing as an immense charm bracelet...
Shame. One of Bergman's glories, a chilling indictment of a passive intellectual's approach to life and death...in wartime. With Hour of the Wolf, a cinematically flashy, intellectually tired rehash of some isn't-an-artist's-life-hell? themes. BRATTLE THEATER. Shame: 6:20, 9:30. Wolf...