Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARKNESS COMMONS, Duck Soup and The Great Train Robbery with Buster Keaton...
Tati has obviously - perhaps too obviously - learned from the old masters. Keaton's mechanical virtuosity is on view, or at least attempted, as are Chaplin's timing and resilience and Langdon's scrambled innocence. Tati absorbs and assimilates each skill like a diligent pupil taking great care with his lessons, and that is the way they are applied. Watching Tati is like listening to the brightest kid in the class run through his homework, dogged, letter perfect and without inspiration. His movies since M. Hulot's debut have been very like the best scene in that...
...Sunshine. A few other aspects of the comic's life are new: his steady girl friend Diane Keaton, for instance, the best friend's winsomely sympathetic wife in Play It Again, Sam. He has learned how to relax by playing a competent clarinet with a traditional Dixieland band in public-sans gags. But Allen remains wedded to a demonic schedule. "Woody's life is his work," says Diane. "He is just not a relaxer. I can't imagine him lounging around the pool in the sunshine in that white skin." Admits Woody: "I have to work...
From time to time the slouch-hatted and trench-coated shade of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy) appears and dispenses bits of hard-boiled advice to the lovelorn and loveworn Felix. With such expert assistance, Felix finally beds a kindly but dedicated neurotic (splendidly played by Diane Keaton of The God-lather, who spins something funny and touching from the script's few scattered remnants...
Director Bogdanovich's intention here was to do a pastiche of '30s screw ball comedy, particularly of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, whose plot he lifted and whose blisteringly fast pace he attempted to emulate. He also borrowed from other sources as varied as Buster Keaton and Animator Chuck (Roadrunner) Jones. The result is a comedy made by a man who has seen a lot of movies, knows all the mechanics, and has absolutely no sense of humor. Seeing What's Up, Doc? is like shaking hands with a joker holding a Joy Buzzer. The effect...