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Adapting Havel's staging to the Loeb Ex, Rouse employs the small performance space to enhance the "stifling" claustrophobia of the living room setting. Surrounding the living room with a set of five doors, each leading to some degree of unknown or off-stage humour, the set designer (David Gammons) draws on the powerful effects of the drama's rhetorical structure to approximate the closed-in, yet exposed psyche of Leopold...
This peculiarity of the British sense of humour is important to keep in mind when viewing "High Hopes." Otherwise Mike Leigh's sketch of the state of class warfare in London might become unbearably bleak. The film centers on Cyril and Shirley, a couple who live in a high-rise block, work as motorcycle couriers and are haunted by Cyril's dogged refusal to start a family. Although Leigh is sympathetic to Shirley's need for a child, the family portraits he draws would be enough to put anyone...
Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...
Harvard Film Archive. "Two Mikes Don't Make A Wright," the omnibus combination of three humour shorts by contemporary filmmakers Steven Wright, Michael Moore and Mike Leigh at 7 and 9 p.m. Carpenter Center. $5 for students...
Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...