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...East of Eden, Brattle Theatre, 5:30, 9:30. With Rebel Without a Cause. A James Dean pity-my-adolescent-agony double-bill. Dates badly. 7:30, 3:30 weekend...
Faithful readers who have already followed Supermac through three volumes of adventures will find him this time at the peak of his powers. The U.S. has let Britain down at Suez. Anthony Eden has quit. But Harold, as Her Majesty's Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, moves in to rebuild the Anglo-American alliance on the basis of his old friendship with Dwight Eisenhower. He also pilots the ship of state through the storms of crisis in Lebanon, an incipient trade war in Europe, a Gaullist coup in France. Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary...
...easy relaxed sense of comedy that keeps the more obvious jokes from becoming slick. Especially funny are Sue Cole (Columbine, the Nag) playing a Dolly Levi style matchmaker with a touch of Mae West, and Steve Peterman (Scapino, the Acrobat) is a funky Snake in the Garden of Eden. Joe Gurman, as Harlequin, the Manager, is burdened with more than his fair share of heavyweight lines, although a lighter, more self-amused interpretation might have camoflauged some of the script's moralizing. Producer-director Paul Harrison has met limitations of budget and set with a work of exactly the right...
...along in the Britain of Sunday Bloody Sunday means to cope with institutions which press people into patterns, with crowds whose mass indifference breeds indifferent hate, with daily news bulletins which predict national disaster in stentorian tones of doom. (Seeing the film in the U.S. makes the voicing of Eden-like attitudes towards America seem an additional cruelty). If muted passions give the characters their interest, the way they react to dulling workday situations reveals their depths...
Meantime, a bushman (an authentic one named David Gumpilil) fearlessly traverses the country-the sky his ceiling, the air his blanket-boomeranging lizards and kangaroos in order to eat. Stumbling upon the lost souls, this natural man guides them through his Eden. Walkabout suddenly becomes a lyric travelogue, assaulting the harsh Flinders mountain ranges, trailing the little camels of the red desert near Alice Springs, mooning under the blooming quandong tree. Director Nicolas Roeg, who made his reputation as a cinematographer (Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd. Petulia), shows a precise and delicate Down Understanding. But give him anything...