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...hoing." "What attracts me to this role is the chance to play both a young innocent and an intelligent girl who has made the choice of living intensely." So says Actress Nastassja Kinski, 20, a veteran of seven movies and a few romances (Directors Roman Polanski, Milos Forman), in Paris to film Exposed. In the picture Kinski plays a girl who trades in her protected life in the rural Midwest for a career as a fashion model. "She wants to be obsessed by something," says Kinski, who has been fretting a bit about her own career. "I thought film...
Christopher S. Forman '83, president of the Conservative Club, said yesterday that although none of the clubs sponsored the demonstration, most of the participants were members of the clubs. "It was a non-partisan group counter-demonstration, and there was no intent to disrupt the talk," Forman said...
...dwell on the performances is to admit the ultimate failure of Forman's enterprise. His commitment to the actors allows them the time to bring their characters to quirky behavioral life, but every reaction shot, every unfinished phrase or repeated sentence means that many moments stolen from the Doctorow overview. Forman has taken as gospel the novel's epigraph-Scott Joplin's admonition, "It is never right to play ragtime fast"-reduced a pageant to an anecdote, and sacrificed sweep for nuance. Grateful as one is to have this Ragtime, with its many thrilling performances...
...Milos Forman seems to have understood this. The film's first shot focuses on a pair of black hands striding over piano keys, then pulls back to reveal a nickelodeon screen whose newsreel image is closing in on some machinery. Step back for the long shot; move in for the closeup. Distance and involvement, irony and sympathy. Working with Playwright Michael Weller, his collaborator on the 1979 film version of Hair, Forman concentrates on one main story and one subplot-Coalhouse Walker's rise to notoriety and Evelyn Nesbit's career as America's first...
...Forman, who inherited this project after Robert Altman was removed by Producer Dino De Laurentiis, is an actor's director. In Ragtime he has .elicited many fine performances: from Olson and Steenburgen, models of rectitude and discreet strength; from Rollins, who carries the film with a heroic charm that sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun...