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...Adventures of Robin Hood. Erroll Flynn's greatest romantic performance is Captain Blood--but Robin Hood is preferred by many transexual classicists because of the cute breeches. None of the Disney gruel here. Second greatest soundtrack to Days of Heaven. Some filmic dryasdusts dredge up the 1914 seven hour version with Belgian director Lionel Von Rennselaeaer's lighthearted experiments in figure/ground confusion done on highly explosive nitrate stock, but the lead was played by a stolid burgher whose sword work looked something like Boog Powell trying to bunt. Flynn, the great rakehell, leaves no doubt that he knew...
Like ephemeral puffs of exhaust, current commercial movies are exhaled by a sidetracked Hollywood locomotive caught in the cartoon loop of capitalist consumption. When we can gain sufficient distance to see ourselves in the Hollywood mirror, we may hopefully give due recognition to other filmic trains of thought which reflect light on the nature of film as perception, and cultural utterance. Brakhage, as a metaphor for the exploding, embryonic, experimental film ghetto of insight, is an opportunity for those interested in the potential and future for film to discover a most human vehicle of introduction...
Last week I took the Red Line down into the Combat Zone, to check out an "art film". What I saw was barely filmic, let alone artistic. The Astor Theatre on Tremont Street was showing Private School Girls, a German import. I had not been enticed by the silly ad in the Globe ("Karen made the Dean's List... and a few others"), but by a simple desire to see what skin flicks were all about...
Othello. Stuart Burge's direction of a British National Theater production, starring Sir Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Frank Finlay, is a record of an outstanding stage production. Avoiding, for the most part, the elaborate "filmic" effects of so many Shakespearean films, it shows that straight-forward filming of a play can succeed admirably...
...rococo grandeur that has grown somehow galling, for it is the disease of a talent bankrupt for substance. Fellini has lost his sense of connection. The camera flits over the poverty-ridden, the deformed, the filth and litter of fascism and war, turning the plagues of Rome into perverse filmic display...