Word: elvira
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time greats. Bergman's Passion of Anna the culmination of two decades of cinematic experiment, psychological examination and religious questioning. The only people who don't admire it are certain radical film critics who consider Bergman an "elitist." Sunday, it's back to staidsville, with the weepy Elvira Madigan and the better, if modest. Taste of Honey. (Call 566-0007 for times and further scheduling...
...fine English translation of the libretto did not help Elisabeth Phinney as Donna Elvira. Her diction in arias was mediocre. She was perfectly clear through the recitative so the problem is obviously not insoluble. She was at her best in Ah, Fuggi il Traditor, a Handelian rage aria complete with dotted rhythms, large interval leaps, and distinct bass line. In the peasant-girl Zerlina's role, Lisbeth Brittain was properly ingenuous and sang with a bright, light soprano voice...
...Elvira Madigan, March 23-24. Thur, at 8 p.m. only and Fri. at 8 and 10 p.m., Baker...
...most popular film, Elvira Madigan, Director Widerberg tends to see events in soft focus. His abiding affection for lambent light produces some beautiful images (a deserted wheat field with a long black train seeming almost to slide across it in the distance), but it plays him false just as often, making his film merely pretty where it should be brutal...
...memorably played by Thommy Berggren (the lover in Elvira Madigan), whose diffident yet forceful manner and ingratiating uncertainty with the English language make him the perfect incarnation of Hill. Kelvin Malave is also charming as The Fox, but the rest of the cast is distractingly nonprofessional. What is decisively wrong with Joe Hill is that it lacks historical complexity. The Molly Maguires, another film about labor's early struggles, was remorselessly real, almost like a dirge. Joe Hill, despite its occasional beauties, is more like a sentimental pop tune...