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...mostly takes place in an apartment building that Leo Sabarsky, a painter, has just moved into. There he meets Jonathan Rush, a secretive, Salman Rushdie-like writer whose latest book incites riots. Completing the traditional arts, Angel, a musician who can make stones sing, lives there too. Mixing Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python, strange, vaguely metaphorical characters pop in and out. Pudgy, bowler-hatted men regularly visit the writer to collect anything that he loves, giving them over to a mad doctor who dissects the objects, looking for their soul. The painter receives a visit from a mute gallery owner...
...Meyer didn't quite go that route. His '70s indie work is like the late period of any personal filmmaker, from Fellini to Bergman: the same, but more-so; apotheosis merging with self-parody. Some vaunted directors, like Hitchcock, run out of steam as they pass retirement age. Meyer didn't wind down; he got more wound up. Cartoons of cartoons. Ballistic bazooms. Giganta-goddesses like Ushi Digard spurred the poet in his loins ("her large, burnished melons deeply cleaved...
...cameo in "My Voyage to Italy": an excerpt from "Gold of Naples." For four vertiginous hours, women glamorize this compilation film, as they do Italian (and every other) cinema. "Voyage" begins with Magnani's death in "Open City" and ends with Cardinale's seraphic smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage...
...know Scorsese appreciates the connection of directors and actresses. He had a liaison with Lisa Minnelli, the daughter of Judy Garland and Italian-American auteur Vincente Minnelli; and he was married for a time to Isabella Rossellini, the loveliest co-production of Rossellini and Bergman. But we also know that he had a shy boyhood, and long considered studying for the priesthood. Then too, we know Scorsese's films. He makes serious, explosive ones about men loving and betraying each other. Women are usually on the periphery. This doesn't make him unique among directors. Indeed...
HIGHLIGHTS Harvard wins fall ECAC title, while Courtney Bergman advances to nationals. Crimson nearly stuns No. 2 Duke in February, finishes year ranked...