Word: celluloidal
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Director Kleiser (responsible for Blue Lagoon and Grease among other monumental celluloid accomplishments) has chosen a fascinating backdrop for a film. In addition, the Dionysean ambience of the place, if sensitively explored, would be an interesting subject for folks who think that the Cape of the Hamptons are the cat's pajamas. Summer Lovers, however, is nothing more than a sloppily arranged series of brief glimpses of an island paradise, seen through a camera constantly swooping for 180-degree panoramas and zooming from close-ups of sweat-filled navels to post card spots of the entire rocky coast...
...other Western leaders at Versailles, with a formal dinner in the fabled Hall of Mirrors and a king's bedroom for Reagan in the Grand Trianon. Then on to Rome to meet the Pope, as well as Italy's President and Prime Minister. In Britain the old celluloid trouper will canter with the Queen through Windsor Great Park before becoming the first U.S. President ever to address members of both houses of Parliament. Finally, after a NATO summit session in Bonn, there will be a pilgrimage to that oppressively ugly symbol of Communist tyranny, the Berlin Wall...
...Adams plan caught the attention of the National Defense Research Committee, which spent $2 million on the scheme before deciding the little beasts were too difficult to handle. Miniature bombs made of celluloid and filled with napalm gel were attached to the bats with surgical clips, and the recruits hibernated in cold-storage chests until flight time. Then came the first test run, held at Muroc Lake, Calif, in May 1943. When released from the planes, many of the bats did not wake up, and plummeted to the ground like tiny kamikazes. Others drowsily flew off, never to report...
...develop acceptable. If not quite plausible characters ex nihilo. It is a shame that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise be an inert pile of celluloid only suggests that their lustrous reputations are well-deserved Perhaps I am the sucker the real sentimentalist for letting those two familiar septuagenarian faces get to me. But it seems, simply, that here are two people who can act and act well, even if the roles may not merit the effort...
...leave a cocktail party. You know what they're talking about, where they're headed, and the harder they try, the more they exhaust your interest. Penn forces the audience into active participation to keep track of characters and motivations, and consequently loses all control. Four Friends is the celluloid equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, splashing everything about the sixties--sex, drugs, rock, JFK, the moon shot, draftcard burnings, racial tension, etc--into one amorphous mass, demanding more emotion and extracting more then it's worth. Penn and screen writer Steve (Breaking Away) Tesich drape images of America--idealistic...