Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raene Rau as Clarisse just doesn't have the vocal power necessary for her crucial outburst against Teddy, but in general she tries very hard to make her character believable and sympathetic. Marilyn Chan as Cheryl is simply lost in the shadow of Grumbach, managing to look attractice and little else. Bruce Rodgers as Clark looks like a preppie who walked into a Wild West show by mistake...
...technical aspect of the production was a bit sloppy: it took about five minutes for the clock on the wall to come on after the scenes started, but in general the ambitious set, complete with real jukebox, was fine...
EVERY NOW AND THEN a film comes along that arouses a good deal of disagreement among both critics and the general audience. The axiom holds true for films, as for everything else, that which one man loves may well sicken another. This sort of critical and public debate should be encouraged; after all, it makes for a better-informed audience and we can only hope that a better-informed audience will demand and eventually get better films...
...there were relatively few vivid images of a civilized "modernist" Germany to set against the overwhelming iconography of Nazi terror. Now this is changing. "Paris-Berlin" comes hard on the heels of a splendid group of exhibitions mounted in Berlin last fall by the Council of Europe under the general title "Trends of the '20s." They focused on German Dada, on the Bauhaus and its circle, and on international constructivism. "Paris-Berlin" overlaps the earlier shows in those areas; many of the "classics" of the '20s, like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's light-space modulators and constructivist paintings...
...Colonel B affair underlines the curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...