Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's message is that an individual does not stand a ghost of a chance in a tyranny. Despite some farcically funny moments, and a brigade of song-and-dance gypsies-presumably immune to Communism's joyless coercions-The Suicide, as of 1980, iterates the obvious...
...class will tell, and Curtis has worked with the men at the head of the scare-picture class: John Carpenter, who directed her in both Halloween and The Fog, and Cinematographer John Alcott, who makes this toy locomotive of a film look as sleek and eerie as the ghost of the Twentieth Century Limited. Curtis brings her own class to the genre, though one wonders where her career will lead her next. Into an ominous shower stall? Like mother, like daughter, bless...
...Ghost Sonanta...
...credits announce that this is "a film composed by Jean-Luc Godard." Every Man is shaped in the form of a sonata, with thematic variations expressed through recurring images and lines of dialogue. But this is a ghost sonata, and the specter is that of the old (young) Godard, the director of Breathless and Weekend, who dazzled cinephiles with his visual fecundity and youthful wit. His new film, however confessional, seems clinically detached. Its heartbeat is irregular and indistinct, like signals from a dying star on the other side of the universe.And its message for the human race seems...
...create a shaky, violent world in which fact and fiction, murder and loyalty, blur dangerously. When the king's party enter Macbeth's castle to spend the fateful night, young Donalbain screams and falls to the ground with a dagger in his side--just kidding, of course. Banquo's ghost strolls in and pours himself a nice, long draught (rather bloody, actually) at Macbeth's banquet. The messenger warning Lady Macduff of impending doom tries to seduce her after her moody adolescent son has told her to find a new husband. You can't trust anyone around here...