Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At this stage, the war calls less for bloodletting than for form filling. There are no battles but plenty of bumf-British army term for paperwork. Powell's people move through "the backwoods of this bureaucratic jungle," and it is a novelistic miracle that he keeps their old characters...
The time is approaching when the instrumentalists of Powell's Music fall silent, and what is called for is a long, critical view of Powell on his podium. That "character is fate" is a cliché; the fate of Powell's characters is, like a capricious bomb, historical...
The sophomore (Stephen Lerner) is blessed with a pleasantly pneumatic Cliffie (Kim Brody), who enthusiastically responds to bouncy fun-and-sex whenever they meet, and a good-guy roommate (Jerry Heist). The movie begins with Lerner's discovery of a dinner-jacketed corpse in what I take to be the...
...detached clinicism that is almost unbearable. In Lerner, Hunter has faithfully recorded the conventions of the French/American tough guy: his slovenlieness, his resistance, his attempt to be sphynxlike. But in the character's most Bogartian moment, a curl of the lip at an actor who is strutting out a characterization in front of the mirror in the Loeb green room, Lerner fails to convince us that he isn't posturing a bit himself. He, too, is fascinated by mirrors, particularly the fold-out, floor-length mirror in the Loeb costume loft which he slowly swings around, hypnotized by the multiple...
Lerner's vulnerability to the camera is in sharp contrast to the elusive and inviolable presence of the title character, her features frozen in that maddening half-smile which is traditionally associated with the Mother of God. Hunter scarcely gives her a motion until her third appearance, when she shows...