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...Performance Center last week in what has to be one of the real high points of the P.C.'s career so far. John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys, who have been there several times before, came on first and under their strange assemblage of hats--ten-gallon, cowboy, Clyde Barrow--played their set surely and professionally. But somehow, it seemed like a Cambridgey re-write of basic blue-grass, even without the smooth easy transitions and just damn inspired playing of the Scruggs for contrast. There's something a bit flat about John Lincoln Wright's voice--it gets...
Bonnie and Clyde, Saturday, May 18, 8 and 10 p.m.; and Sunday, May 19, 7 and 9:30 p.m., at Science...
Bonnie and Clyde. No one believes me when I swear I saw a black and white print of this once, but it's true, and it looked amazing, like Walker Evans stuff. Arthur Penn directed, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles...
...stock world of the Depression South; of country criminals who are romantic robin hoods, whether in moonshining or bank robbing; of green country just getting used to the presence of black topped roads and big new cars and cops and robber chases. It is a world which Bonnie and Clyde made famous, and Thieves often seems to lean too heavily on that earlier film, in scenes like the final, rather improbable shoot out at a motor court when the police fill the small frame cottage where the hero is holed up with about two or three minutes worth of solid...
...these robbers rarely seem to experience fear. They come and go freely in the streets, apparently without fear of detection. They glory in their own notoriety, gleefully reading newspaper accounts of their own exploits, a la Bonnie and Clyde, or hearing their names on the radio. They are not especially good at their jobs, and never seem to plan anything except at the curbside in front of the bank. But the law is incredibly incompetent, and it takes a series of the most human weaknesses--one of the robbers foolishly getting married under his real name, a friend...