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...Orson Welles, like when someone forces me to or it's free. I'm always afraid I'm going to lose control at the Orson Welles, lose control and scream "Bergman stinks" as I hurl the coffee-maker against the t-shirt display on the art deco wall. However this reaction isn't entirely the fault of the Welles, which I believe was named the Real Paper's Most Smug Theater of 1976. I learned to fear so-called "art films" and the theaters that screen them at a very early age, when I was dragged to a seedy little...
Schlesinger enriches Yanks' conventional plot machinations with fine atmospheric details and fetching performances. The movie's locations include quaint shops and pubs, foggy, blacked-out streets, a glorious art deco movie palace and enough green pastures to make even an Irishman go dizzy. Most of the cast accomplish the not inconsiderable feat of standing out against the colorful backdrops. Though Gere at times slips into self-conscious mannerisms, he makes his character, a mess sergeant from Arizona, an appealing innocent abroad. Devane is a charming commanding officer, despite his disconcerting tendency to sound like Jack Nicholson. Both Eichhorn...
...patrolled by trigger-happy art historians. Trade follows the flag. The original inhabitants, of course, are long gone. A few survivors get a job in the mines. So it has been with the big "rediscoveries" of the art market in the past 20 years, such as art nouveau, art deco, 19th century American art-and now Soviet vanguard art of the period...
...masterpieces of the 20th century, and all the fresher for being little known. Jacques Lipchitz's flat, frontal cubist sculptures, like Detachable Figure, Seated Musician (1915), are perhaps less impressive than this; yet they have about them a gaiety and precision of feeling that predicts art deco. Archipenko was a Russian émigré who arrived in Paris to work in 1908. As Rowell shows, he contrived to graft the tradition of the icon-with its deep frame and boxy space, and its applied incrustation in the form of halos, plaques, ex-votos and jewels fixed on the paint...
...sets, including a fancy art deco U.S.O. dance hall, all look real, and a few of the facts are real. A lone Japanese sub marine did bombard the California coast not long after Pearl Harbor, and a kind of panic resulted. There were also zoot-suit riots in Los Angeles, but they did not occur until later on, and it was not Stilwell who put them down (though he commanded the Third Corps at Monterey in the early days of the war). Spielberg has simply brought everything together in one mad moment. Says he: "It's about a week...