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...huge (10-ft. by 20-ft.) canvas seems to be little more than a pastiche, cast in gloomy black, blue and red tones. Mystery is made up of many of the century's famous figures-including Czar Nicholas II, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Franklin Roosevelt, Mao and Stalin, who is apparently dead, floating in a sea of blood. Says Glazunov: "It is a work of philosophical realism that reflects the ideas of humanity...
...Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
...when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns out to be a harmless household chemical, wrongly identified for the child by her mother (Geraldine Chaplin...
...American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine's rakish advances. Both Geraldine Chaplin and Shelley Duvall are wasted in limiting characters that flirt with the stereotypical throughout the film; in any case, it is not the acting that makes Nashville, but rather Altman's perfection of the difficult slice-of-life narrative structure, The gratuitous conclusion turned this stomach during the initial screening...
Similarly subtle features of Welcome distinguish it from its acclaimed forerunner. Rudolph's script is very conscious of the need to deal with its characters on their own terms, without any touch of caricature. A few of Tewksberry's characters bordered on becoming stereotypes; Chaplin's featherweight BBC journalist and Shelley Duvall's L.A. Joan are cases in point. Rudolph skirted this chronic problem by allowing his cast considerable freedom to exercise their improvisational skills. While he did bring a finished script to the filming phase of the production, Rudolph still placed a premium on preserving a certain force...