Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with us?' In one such scene, an actor sets a picnic table in front of a slide projection of trees and ferns, eats lunch and prattles about his relationship to Hitler as Obersalzburg servant. It's quite dull. Even... yes, banal. "Why are you fidgeting in your seats?" he turns quickly and asks the audience, smiling. "Bored?" He continues, undaunted by the repressed jeers. Syberberg knows he's boring the masses and, with contempt, he continues. Adolph Hitler, he points out, did everything but bore the masses...
...rare transformation takes place in this remarkable documentary film about the efforts of elderly parents to prepare a middleaged, retarded son for life without them. The first views of Philly, as 52-year-old Philip is called, show a stocky, dull-faced man with an unshaven jaw, thick lips and a gap in his mouth where several front teeth are missing. His speech-grunted single words, short sentences that do little better than repeat what has just been said to him -makes it clear that his intelligence is severely limited. The last look shows the same coarse face, behind which...
Some pieces are so lightly touched that they are almost objets trouvés. But in all of them, the same intense sensibility is at work, making a mere saw cut register as drawing against the dull cortex of the rock, hollowing out a shadow, drawing a surface tight, making the eye aware of what mass and density lie beneath the surface. It is not a spectacular performance, but its mastery in playful thought, and collaboration with material, is close to absolute...
...experience, there is no one in overall charge of preparing TV commercials; the first two taped for the New Hampshire campaign had to be discarded because they dealt exclusively with domestic policy at a time when the attention of the voters had swung to foreign affairs, and they were dull besides. Nor is there any full-time speechwriter. Reagan reserves that job for himself, endlessly scribbling passages on 4-in. by 6-in. index cards, which he shuffles into new arrangements to vary the standard speech that he delivers at every town hall and country club: he blames some...
...genius like Bob Fosse ought to be more interesting than most. Would that Dr. Johnson had written All That Jazz! It was written by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse himself and it is very bad. There are five levels in the movie, at least three of them dull. The first is Physical. This is the Broadway and Personal milieu, littered with caricatures of producers, dancers and composers. ("But they're caricatures in real life!" Fosse would probably cry. But so are a lot of people, and it's the artist's responsibility to uncover the quivering jelly of humanity beneath...