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...drama; legitimately disrespected because of their artistic fluff, but persistently attempted because they are fun to perform. A little Night Music looks like fun for the chorus who ham up a good farce, but mysteriously the main singers play unconvincingly with dramatic pathos to convey the piece's darker strains. The musical struggles between glib and somber moods, the latter superfluous and unsuited to this piece, creating stylistic tension that director Carolyn Rendell never succeeds in reconciling...
With Ross expertly stroking egos, Warner prospered astonishingly, but his highly personal, unbusinesslike style had its darker side. Bruck provides the most detailed account yet of an illegal cash-skimming operation at the Mob-run Westchester Premier Theater in the 1970s. Ross's best friend, Warner executive Jay Emmett, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud arising from the scheme, and Bruck leaves the unmistakable impression that Ross himself was deeply involved, which Ross steadfastly denied. (Ross cut off Emmett summarily when Emmett began cooperating with the prosecution...
Needless to say, while those of us who live in the city vastly prefer New Delhi, American tourists have an inherent fascination with the grimy side-streets of the city's older incarnation, the darker side of the Indian mystique...
...time is indeed right. For the title refers to that brief moment in 1931 when the Spanish Republic was proclaimed, ending the long night of decadent monarchy and preceding the still darker night of civil war and Francoism. It was a historical nanosecond when everyone felt frisky intellectually and emotionally, and this surprising film, which wears its complexities so lightly, pays sweet tribute to that spirit. It is rendered the more poignant by our knowledge -- not, of course, shared by the characters -- of how brief and repressible their irrepressibility would prove...
...awakening of all the darker people of the world, and we are awakening at the level that the white world is now beginning to decline. And this is what Brother Khallid was talking about in his speech; I could not say he's a liar, ((that)) he's wrong. But this should never be taught out of the spirit of mockery...