Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hearts and Minds, 2, 6, 9:50, Mean Streets, 7:55, tonight only; Phantom of Liberty, 6, 9:45, weekend at 2:30; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, 7:50, weekend...
...more important role in Mora's analysis of the Depression. Roosevelt is successfully depicted as the gentlemanly savior of the working classes, the voice of reason in the face of Republican conservatism and most of all, a great actor and showman, winning over huge blocks of votes by sheer charm. The film shows him at home playing with his grandchildren, and cruising in the Long Island Sound in his family yacht. But never is Roosevelt so effective as when he mimics his political antagonists. Mora records him in a 1936 speech saying, "The opposition has called me an ogre...
This production accepts Treemonisha's old-fashioned charm and innocence without embarrassment. Says Schuller, an expert on ragtime and jazz: "There are certain kinds of primitive art works that must be preserved as they originally were. Treemonisha is one of them. It just won't work if you try to sass it up or modernize it for Broadway." This is easier said than done, especially in scoring the work; only Joplin's piano edition has survived. Schuller's orchestration radiates not just the ring of authenticity but the growl and wail as well...
What makes Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? entertaining beyond its spirit and charm is the manner in which Writer-Director Philippe Mora has organized the footage and orchestrated it to a period score that runs from Duke Ellington and Woody Guthrie through Rudy Vallée and Ginger Rogers. There is no narration, hardly ever a title to identify a person or event. Fact and fiction are interwoven without distinction. For Mora, the hard reality of the Depression is inseparable from all the fancies it produced...
Once Moynihan moved into his office on the East River, he disarmed his U.N. colleagues with the same affability and Irish charm that have impressed four U.S. Presidents. His policy, he stressed, was to foster "genuine dialogue" rather than confrontation. Once he even praised a delegate for his "excellent presentation" of a bitterly abusive anti-U.S. speech...