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Particularly in those films which Hollywood has produced to help fortify its own mystique. Some of the most exuberant and entertaining movies of the past two decades-Stanley Donen's Singing in the Rain, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Robert Aldrich's Legend of Lylah Clare -have been about Hollywood and the strange brand of people who make it tick. The latter two of these pictures are being offered by the Currier House Film Society this week, and, if you love American movies and are in some way obsessed by the factory that made them, you simply cannot miss...
Funny, incisive and stylish, the film fea tures Frederic Raphael's script and Stan ley Donen's direction...
Bedazzled--Stanley Donen off his stride, trying to pump comic life into the Faust legend. A movie with sparse laughs and nothing to say. At the ESQUIRE, Mass. Ave. on the Boston side of Harvard Square...
...style is a strange hybrid. The superb interiors owe much to Godard (Une Femme Est Une Femme, Le Mepris, Pierrot le Fou) and succeed in filling the cinemascope screen with inventive precision; on the other hand, the exteriors are derivative of American films (with shots lifted from Stanley Donen's Singing In The Rain and Nicholas Ray's Party Girl) and don't always work. Demy's Ray like tendency to pull into high angle results too often in his simply being stranded up there without a satisfactory shot...
...Stanley Donen has directed the melange with the accomplished color camera he has used so well many times before...