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As for the filming, the camera's merciless eye often annihilates the indispensable illusion of theater, leaping the distance that might lend more credibility to Olivier's thundercloud performance. His makeup looks false, and through the blackface gleams a supreme actor's intelligence, timing every phrase, calculating...
Male Companion. Movies about sex, like sex itself, thrive best on the illusion that an air of joyous improvisation covers a multitude of sins. In Companion, Director Philippe de Broca (The Five-Day Lover, The Love Game) again sets light-footed Jean-Pierre Cassel to dancing from escapade to escapade...
And worst of all, the drama and irony of the third act have been buried in a confused effort to duplicate the movie on the stage. Stills from the film of Major Barbara were projected onto the rear of the stage, with appropriate ooh's and aah's from the...
The trouble with the Lowell House production of Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie is just that: the magic world of memory and illusion that Williams tried to create exists only in the glass figurines. The rest of the play, except for a moment or two, is flat, prosaic, and...
Nightmares are frightening because they make the bizarre inescapably logical, and any work of art dealing in horror and suspense must try to do the same. Dream-logic is clearly the goal in Repulsion, Roman Polanski's second feature-length film, but a clumsy visual style, dull acting, and a...