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...censored episodes of "TV Nation," stolen from network headquarters in true Michael Moore fashion, played on the screen while Moore signed copies of his book. In one segment, Civil War veterans re-enacted "great battles" of the past. In another, Janeane Garofolo invaded the private beaches of Greenwich, Connecticut, rousing the ire of its inbred residents; one of them denied being prejudiced against Garofolo's black friends, remarking that Greenwich people were very much in touch with minorities--they employed them in their homes. Although his audience needed no converting, Moore's acute observations and outrageous humor were rewarded...
...most important role I have played so far"). After her former pimp, Carmine (Franco Citti), marries a well-to-do lady from the countryside, Mamma Roma attempts to lead a respectable life, selling vegetables in an open air Roman market. More importantly, she brings her son, Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), to Rome, with the hopes of providing him a good education and a job at a local restaurant...
...references to Dante, to Caravaggio (Pasolini once said that he wrote the script completely around the character of the real Ettore Garofolo, whom he saw one day carrying plates in a restaurant "just like a Caravaggio figure"), to Mantegna's "Cristo morto," to Vivaldi, whose religious music provides the backdrop for much of the film. This tension between Marxism and Catholicism, neorealism and symbolic references, is never overwhelming. It enhances each sequence, beautifying that which is most ugly, most tragic, or even most ordinary in a film determined to expose just these elements of Roman life...
...fact, the texture donated by the lighting is an integral factor in the success of the play. Lighting designer John A. Garofolo has complete control over the environment on the stage. He can twist the lights around to make the oddly-angled pieces of scenery ominous, mysterious or blatantly normal. The shadows created by the light add more to the atmosphere than the set does by itself, making the blue pieces in back rounded perfectly and the red pieces in front like giants taking the part of the audience...
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