Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HORDES THAT fill the sticky, smok Astor theater to see Jimi Plays Berkeley are rock concert crowds. They shout to friends in the balcony and stomp their feet impatiently. And when the house lights dim--after the usual delay peculiar to rock concerts--matches flare and shoulders hunch throughout the theater. Excited, they sit back to let the Jimi Hendrix Experience wash over them...
Jimi Plays Berkeley does not catch Hendrix at his peak, as advertised. Hendrix played Berkeley a mere three months before the end. And what is captured here is not the Hendrix experience, but just the act. Hendrix delivers spectacular performances--particularly of Purple Haze and The Star Spangled Banner--and goes through all the motions, playing on his back (once) and with his teeth (five times!). But by now, the show is deliberate and familiar and desperately boring, even in a 40 minute movie...
...BLAME belongs to director Peter Pilafian, who has gathered all the ingredients for a traditional rock film and mixed them poorly. Jimi offstage mumbles, cuddles a friend and sips Budweiser. Jimi in rehearsal starts, stops and starts again. Performances are broken up by audience footage and newsfilms of the Berkeley Cambodia riots. All this is welcome relief, but never convincingly related to the music...
...LITTLE PRINCE. It is hard for me to imagine a worthwhile production of this Saint-Exupery book (which I love), but I believe some jerk is currently making it into a movie musical, which will undoubtedly be much worse. 8:00 p.m. at the Boston Repertory Theater, Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston...
...said that when he sold the Berkeley home and moved to Cambridge, he told his friends it seemed like he was "selling a house and getting a bicycle...