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...doesn't operate on a level of ideas, and extracting a coherent linear reason from it is well-high impossible. Beautifully crafted, like the Henry James stories of Venice and the supernatural, Nicholas Roeg's picture works subliminally, its momentum of mystery sensitizing an audience like only the finest thrillers can. Here the method is a connecting set of visual imagery that tampers with the evenness of reality, giving everyday objects a threatening countenance, making the unseen real. Starring Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, and Venice...
...Harvard Square are two of the finest examples of a great genre--the French domestic comedy of the middle class: Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart are Claude Berri's Le Sex Shop. Both are the kind of whimsy that'll have you grinning idiotically when you leave, and Malle's, about an incestual mother/son relationship, has great sensitivity as well...
...Woody Allen is out finest screen comedian. He only goes seriously wrong when there's not enough of him, like his not directing Play It Again, Sam, or his absence from some of the skits in Everything... But in Sleeper he's everywhere, directing, staring (Diane Keaton is there, too, but she can't fit into what is designed to be a one-man show) and co-authoring (with Marshal Brickman), generally leaving his stamp all over this terrifically funny film. Woody Alley may be staging everything a little too perfectly here, but he isn't going to lose...
...Much has changed in Cairo in 29 years," notes Wynn, "but there is still a sense of permanence about the Egypt of awe-inspiring antiquities, of graceful feluccas with their arched sails on the Nile, and the finest kabob and sharpest sense of humor in the world...
...onto two sides of a single 78 r.p.m. record. There are the myriad piano transcriptions that Rachmaninoff wrote for recital encores, notably the Prelude from Bach's Violin Partita in E and the Scherzo from Men delssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is the finest recording ever made of Schumann's Carnaval, astonishingly warm and realistic in sound quality despite its 1929 vintage. Rachmaninoff the conductor is also represented, leading the Philadelphia in effective readings of his soulful Third Symphony (1939) and brooding Isle of the Dead...