Word: emotionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ADMITTEDLY IT'S NOT much plot for five dollars, and Segal doesn't make up for that weakness in any other department. He's dispensed with things like descriptive prose, character development or even the maudlin emotion-grabbing of Love Story. Apparently amusement is the goal of this little book...
The homecoming was from the start an emotional event, not only for the prisoners and their families but also for millions who watched the various airport ceremonies on television. For the first time in many years of the Viet Nam experience, the nation was indulging in an unabashed patriotism. Navy...
LIMELIGHT IS A sad, very sad movie. Sad in miniscule degree because it tries to tell an unhappy story, but sad mainly because Chaplin's former greatness winks from behind the bathos just often enough to let us recognize an artist trapped by his own sentiment. The film would be...
THE GREATEST disappointment, however, is that the indigent dialogue alone forms the core of the film. Chaplin helped develop motion pictures. He was both champion and master of movement within the frame, yet Limelight is a static film. In 1931, Chaplin wrote, "The sudden arrival of dialogue in motion pictures...
PERHAPS MOST of the bewilderment which has greeted the film comes from Pauline Kael's typically confused notion that it depicts "women as the Other." But the film is interested not in these women's emotion, but the intelligence and intuitions which direct these emotions. The case can be made...