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...dead time only further highlights the inanities Matthau and Clayburgh spit at each other. In an effort to create the stately atmosphere of the high court, Neame relies almost exclusively on close-up, static shots of the two principals inside their chambers. Without any camera movement, he creates a Bergman-like claustrophobia--ridiculously out of place in this comedy...
Associate Editor Richard Corliss was 16 years old when a viewing of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal in Corliss's native Philadelphia transformed a budding romance with film into a serious relationship. "I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with," says Corliss. "Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art." Though Corliss has since cut down on popcorn, his taste for movies has broadened to include "mass" as well as "class" films by directors in all parts of the world. His experience...
...ultimately, it's this quality of keeping the characters complex and bored Americans--not Bergman's cartherisized Swedes or Scorcese's narcoticized totems--that makes Cutter's Way so extraordinary. Not since Taxi Driver has an American film been so successful at showing us American in a whole new light, and hever has one managed it with such control of its self-conscious and cinematic form. Passer has come closer to making a masterpiece than anyone in the past few years...
...durable of all great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses, and obscure allegory that no director's grand interpretation is likely to encompass its entirety. In his film version, Ingmar Bergman--no shirker from directorial complexity--paid tribute to the sufficiency of Mozart's music to bear The Magic Flute's inconsistencies; he presented a filmed record of a workmanlike, shoestring performance in a provincial opera house...
Harvard winners include John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History: William A. Graham Jr. '70, associate professor of Islamic Religion: Stanley J. Tambiah, professor of Anthropology: Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts: David Dressler, lecturer on Biochemistry and Biology: Melvin Joel Konner, associate professor of Biological Anthropology: Joel Porte. professor of English and American Literature: Raymond Siever, professor of Geology; Paul Starr, assistant professor of Sociology: Tison Street, associate professor of Music; and Ernest E. Williams, professor of Biology...