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...Zone" was, to my mind, a miserable failure. In this first portion of the triptych, the Soldier (David Dukes) makes a pact with the devil. He sells not only his soul, but also his body; or, at least, this is implied by the play's personalization of the Devil as homosexual sadist...
Clerance Felder as the Devil then dons angel's robe and halo and takes the "high road" to tempt the Soldier. No longer a sadist, the Devil has become an effeminate masochist...
...Zone" offers this forced convergence of "high" and "low" humor, which is too naturalistic to be absurd and too pregnant with symbolism to pose as farce. The "high" humor of the Devil as Angel finds expression in a scene in which an Old Man and an Old Woman solicit his aid in bringing their daughter back to life. The sarcastic expose of superstition is vitiated by a focus on the campy quaintness of the old couple and the vulgarity of their revivified daughter (Alaina Warren). The mixing of styles proves particularly annoying in Felder's early appearances as the Devil...
...have the most exciting schedule of any of the courses; students enrolled in the course will have a chance to see films that are rarely, if ever, screened in the Boston area. Definite booking has already been made for Glauber Rocha's "Antonio das Mortes" and "Black God, White Devil," Jean Marie Straub's "The Chronicle of Anna Magdelena Bach," and Bertolucci's "The Partner." There is also a possibility that Rohmer's "Ma Nuit Chez Maud" will be screened...
...asunder." Something is missing, too, when "the spirit is willing but nature is weak." Inexplicably, some words have become more obscure ("terebinth," for instance, replaces "turpentine tree"). And sometimes the translation seems a bit too breezy. In the tense temptation scene, Jesus formerly proclaimed to the Devil, "It is written"; now he says, "Scripture has it." In James 2:16, "Go in peace" becomes "Goodbye and good luck...