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...staggers toward his doom on feet unsteadied not so much by booze as by the weight of the cross he bears, a compound of tormented memory and suffering intelligence. There is in his presence a nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey's self-destruction. With Finney, they slowly draw the viewer across time and distance into an unlikely involvement with highly unlikely people. Some...
Considering the potential promise and relative obscurity of the play, this is a shame. Though it enjoyed a successful Broadway debut with Bette Davis--and a subsequently not-so-successful film adaptation featuring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset--both play and playwright are little known among contemporary theatregoers. Yet the crisp dialogue and comic sentimentality of the script make for what could be an entertaining evening of theatre...
Among the most memorable short-lived "classics" to hit box offices in recent memory are The East American Virgin (lots of bodies, lots of sap), class (lots of Jacqueline Bisset, more sap), and Private Lessons (more of the same, minus Jacqueline Bisset). As long as teenagers continue demand a peek at what lies beyond the locker room producers will continue to churn out such films en masse, with more regard for profits than artistic quality...
...have played the voice of God in the 1966 movie The Bible, but Director John Huston, 77, cannot move mountains. So last month Huston moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the shadow of Popocatepetl, site of his new epic, Under the Volcano. The film, which stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset...
...plot with "formula" written all over it, yet director Lewis Carlino successfully works Class into an enjoyable and believable two hours. Much of the credit goes to the actors, who, despite some painfully stagy lapses, sustain comic realism throughout. Except for Bisset (whose education of Jonathan is so captivating that you never wonder why she's lavishing it on a 19-year-old) the adult characters are largely unconvincing stereotypes, but the academy inmates are almost all outstanding. Lowe, fresh off the set of The Outsiders, and film-newcomer McCarthy work well as Vernon's dynamic duo, constructing a close...