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...Naked" Directed by Mike Leigh at Loews Nickelodeon...
...Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter...
...director's cut brings "Streetcar' up to a standard more suitable for the modern palate. we see a richer portrayal of the sexuality of Blanche Dubois, played stupendously by Vivien Leigh, and Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead of a doting housewife and her lonely sister, we see full-bodied emotional an sexual characters. We understand the intensity of the battle over stella that happens between Blanche and Stella's husband, Stanley (played with a feverish pitch by Marlon Brando) because we are allowed to see the sexual attachment between Stella and Stanley...
...additional minutes show the intensity which Williams and Kazan originally intended for the film. This is one of the few restorations made by a major film company which improves the original version. Leigh deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Blanche. She showed Blanche's struggle to maintain her Southern politesse until the bitter, insane end. Kim Hunter as Stella won the Best Supporting Actress while Karl Malden, playing Mitchell, the naive, yet passionate love interest of Blanche, won the Best Supporting Actor award...
Since the late '80s, Freud's work has become more audacious in its ability to deal with extremes of physical presence without sliding into caricature. In part this is due to his finding a new model in the form of Leigh Bowery, a huge, soft, hairless, child-faced, pierced-cheeked performance artist who might, in earlier days, have modeled Bacchuses for Rubens. Freud's paintings of this man-mountain are done in a spirit not far from amazement: his + excitement in traversing Bowery's back in Naked Man, Back View, 1991-92, is so palpable that you'd think...