Word: comic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality. Later came the vision of La Baker, a glamorous chanteuse gowned by Dior or Balenciaga and seemingly the essence of Gallic sophistication...
...this drama Edward Duke has taken a character created by early 20th century writer P.G. Wodehouse and put him into a series of storytelling situations. The stories however, never cease to delight and amuse because Duke keeps pulling a number of comic, eccentric characters...
...this point, does the movie show Michael cutting his adopted baby's umbilical cord? Wasn't his presence in the delivery room enough to stress his growing ties with Lucy? Generally the movie's realism provides for comic relief, but the end of Immediate Family degenerates...
Imaginative camera work enhances Benedek's comic vision. The camera looks down from a high angle at the Spectors' home preparations for an artificial insemination attempt, lending the couple's futile but exhaustive efforts an air of absurdity. In another scene the camera stays stationary as Linda moves from room to room, rather than following her. With this kind of cinematography, Immediate Family merely observes human foibles rather than draws attention to them...
...remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...