Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shown at the Cannes film festival. Beggars take over a rich man's house and stage a ghastly version of the Last Supper. The best tough in the film is Bunuel's use of music: Handel's Messiah during the beggars' feast and then Chuck Berry when all hell breaks loose at the end. One of his very best films, much more original than his senile and commercial successes of recent years, such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...
...realization. There is the world of their stage; an uninvolved white court watches Village reenact the rape and murder of a white woman, played rather reluctantly by a blond-bewigged Diouf. On our stage, the black-black-actors judge and condemn the white-black-actors and march them into hell. In the world of the theatre as a whole, we the predominantly white audience begin to perceive the actors as a unified group manipulating us with savage skill. And then there is the reality beyond the theatre, whose messenger is Newport News. During the evening's performance, somewhere...
...struggle in which neither of the alternatives has commanding force. Erland Josephson, who played the husband in Scenes from a Marriage, makes an intelligent, forbearing Tomas, but the movie belongs to Liv Ullmann. She has never been better. Her Jenny is a definitive rendering of an emotional descent into hell. Many actresses have attempted this, but watching Ullmann do it, we realize how few have done it well. Hers is an intelligent, devastating performance. Ullmann's little smile of unsettled wellbeing, the desperation and desolation of her hysteria, are achieved by applying the most basic and most difficult concept...
...told us what to do: advertise gas economy, small size; advertise American, no-nonsense thrift. And who gets the action? Chrysler Cordoba and Volare-foreign names, foreign actors on the TV screen, 'Corinthian leather,' the look of 'elegance.' I asked the admen 'What the hell is this all about?' They could not explain...
...love Mary Hartman," he told TIME'S Leo Janos last week. "It's outrageous . . . outrageous! And the freedom! It's a story that goes on forever. No first-act curtain to worry about; no second-act resolution scene. Soap opera is a hell of an exciting form. Especially the way we are doing it, on two levels. Funny on one level and an intense human interest story on the other...