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...total running time of one hour and 54 minutes. Two of Mackenzie's films are good, straightforward documentaries, one on a rodeo cowboy and the other on old people doomed to lose their homes to urban redevelopment in Los Angeles. But his really arresting accomplishment is a semidocumentary, full-length feature called The Exiles, a picture about American Indians as they live in Los Angeles today. Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing day out of a set of static and pointless lives, showing a lost people who imitate...
James Blue, 33, turned in a surprising entry. After all the six-minute adolescent pornies, the sober documentaries, and the truly artful short work of men like D'Avino, along comes Blue from Portland, Ore., with a full-length feature called The Olive Trees of Justice. Beautifully directed by Blue, beautifully acted by unknowns, it was made in Algeria three years ago. It is entirely in French, with French subtitles when the Arabs talk. Blue learned French as a student at the Paris Institute. He made Olive Trees for the French Government. It is propaganda, or was once...
...full-length two-character play, each actor has to be at least an actor and a half. Both J. D. Cannon and James Earl Jones are enormously skillful. At first Cannon seems considerate, practical, matter-of-fact, and then his nerves start to sing like high-tension wires. The playgoer senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage...
...highly unpredictable. When gay, he is gentle and blithe to such a degree that he takes to dancing on the sidewalks, buying extravagant gifts for anyone who comes to mind, playing his heart out. One day last fall he swept into his brother's apartment to dance before a full-length mirror so he could admire his collard-leaf boutonniere; he left without a word. "Hey!" he will call out. "Butterflies faster than birds? Must be, 'cause with all the birds on the scene up in my neighborhood, there's this butterfly, and he flies any way he wanna...
...death scene, like several other emotion-ridden moments, is set up by a quiet conversation that precedes it. In fact Basil Ashmore, who cut the two full-length parts of Tamburlaine into a two-and-a-half-hour show, retained most of the play's quieter moments while cutting back on the noise. The changes he has worked are radical; Bajazeth and Zabina disappear from part one, the Christian kings and their Muslim allies form part two. Almost all the battle scenes are excised, and so, unfortunately, are some important parts of Zenocrate's role. It is inevitable that much...