Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touch, but in introduces what might almost be another story--a dramatic rescue operation based on the Kathy Fiscus tragedy. Excellent night photography highlights these scenes as Negroes and whites work together in the glare of automobile headlights to tunnel through to the girl. This brings a fast moving climax to a picture that's good entertainment, and something to think about...
...supporting role of Stanley's wife Stella, and Karl Malden is excellent as an awe-struck suitor. Camera work and the musical score are both exceptional. But the net effect of Kazan's direction is more controversial. He has charged the atmosphere to the saturation point with crisis and climax. After two hours trapped in a narrow room with Blanche, sitting under her spray of words alternately cloying and hysterical, the onlookers are likely to sympathize with Kowalski's growing impatience. As a result of keying his action too high and throwing out too much emotion at the audience, Kazan...
...good story and told it well. And Composer David had the taste not to try to drown out the drama onstage with too much brass from the pit. His score, dramatic and often lyrical, was not always distinguished. But together, action and music moved on to the climax with the inevitability of a conveyor belt...
This fragile fable reaches its climax in a beguiling 17-minute ballet that recalls The Red Shoes' dance sequences but dwarfs them in scope, lushness and variety. Set to the Gershwin musical suite that gives the film its name, the ballet is a kaleidoscope of the city's landmarks and moods, shifting with the adventures of the hero in his pursuit of the girl. Dance patterns, costumes and scenery fuse handsomely to paint each scene in the style of a different French artist: Dufy, Utrillo, Renoir, Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec...
...stage is set, the characters in motion-but nothing much happens. Author Pritchett fails to cap his story with any recognizable climax, and it slowly sputters out. In final impression, it is more an album of sketches than an integrated novel...