Word: cast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHNNY HANDSOME (Mickey Rourke) has the face of the Elephant Man and the brain of a perverse computer. Now all he needs to take his revenge on some suave double-crossers is a little plastic surgery. Walter Hill's thriller boasts a sturdy cast (Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth McGovern) and a ripe sense of criminal ambiguity. Neat work...
...cast or crew of Alice in Wonderland: Film at Eleven is about to leave you guessing whether or not you will see a spectacle. The action, for example, begins with four Beatlesque Tweedledees singing something of a disclaimer on a giant chess board, lit in blue, that rises up into the air and ends bordered by a giant tree stump on the left and a plump mushroom on the right...
...unfortunate to have two fine leads and a strong supporting cast almost drowning in a frequently confused and often slow plot, much the way Alice almost drowns in her tears...
...might be a mistake to fault Alice for, at times, being unintelligible. It is a spectacle performance: there is a large cast, a staggering number of roles and surreal lighting which adds to the whole production. The set is well done, the costumes are beautiful, and the actors give lively performances. But there are problems with this drama's assumption of its role as social or political criticism, which would necessarily call for more cohesion and iintelligibility...
Meanwhile, the Vic Braden Ski College is gearing up for its third full year at Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain. Braden's critical eye was cast on skiing several years ago, after he and Melody returned from a ski trip confused by the variety of teaching systems they had encountered. Some seemed logical; others made no sense...