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...that would turn a profit. When their plans are good-at the vacation community of Sea Ranch, for example, or the "new town" of Valencia-they set a standard of originality and excellence for the nation. When the plans are bad, which is all too often, they result in garish commercial strips, sleazy subdivisions and industrial parks that have already turned much of the once bright land into a gray blur...
CARLO RUSTICHELLI'S insistent mariachi score contributes to the failure of the failure and so does the often garish Deluxe color. But there is a more important problem: Wilder cannot, when working in a place that is real, create a picture that seems real. His great environments of past films--the Hollywood of Sunset Boulevard (1950), or speak easy Chicago in Some Like it Hot (1959)--were made from studio sets, and even in Avanti' the best creations are the hotel bedrooms, which are not Italian...
...tale of vengeance dedicated to Hitchcock Friday. Red Desert, middle period Antomennui Sarris's phrase) with beautiful color is paired with Juliet of the Spirits Felinis unsuccessful attempt to do for a frustrated house wife what 8 1/2 did for a castrated male artist leading as well into the garish technique of his. Satyricon phantasmagoria which plays Saturday doubled thank God. With one of the all time greats. Bergman's Passion of Anna the culmination of two decades of cinematic experiment, psychological examination and religious questioning. The only people who don't admire it are certain radical film critics...
...turned back General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, the little southeast Pennsylvania town has degenerated into a tourist trap. Fried-chicken stands, ice cream palaces and motels clutter the surroundings of what Lincoln called consecrated ground. Two years ago, Maryland Entrepreneur Thomas Ottenstein announced plans to erect the most garish attraction yet: a modernistic 307-ft. observation tower overlooking the battleground, complete with $750,000 worth of audio-visual equipment to provide what Ottenstein calls a "classroom...
Even if it were run with the decorum of a D.A.R. meeting, the sheer logistics of bringing it all together are incredibly elaborate. Miami Beach, a normally garish but placid corridor of resorts and retirement (the median age of permanent residents is 65), is looking forward to the twin bill with a booster's pride and a bit of trepidation...