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...Baltimore, city of Edgar Allan Poe and H.L. Mencken, of Johnny Unitas and Brooks Robinson, of aluminum-siding salesmen and rampaging transvestites! How lucky thou art to have two sublimely eccentric moviemakers, Barry Levinson and John Waters, as native sons who sing your praises! Levinson set his two best movies, Diner and Tin Men, in the Baltimore of the late '50s and early '60s. Waters has made all eleven of his pictures, from the coprophagous comedy Pink Flamingos to the all-stinking Polyester (filmed in Odorama), in his hometown...
Good Morning, Vietnam Directed by Barry Levinson At the Janus Theater...
While the result is a far cry from live, Williams' routines are more entertaining than most A.M. banter. But even so, the rest of Good Morning, Vietnam is incongruous enough with the comedy sequences that, taken as a whole, the film is difficult to digest. Director Barry Levinson, ecshewing the by-now-traditional shots of Vietnamese villages being burned and peasants shot, intersperses the Saigon sequences with dream-like footage of patrol boats cruising, soldiers milling about, helicopters taking...
WHILE he was no doubt astute in avoiding cliche, the surrealism of these scenes detracts from the power of their subject. And a difficult-to-fathom subplot involving an unrequited romance with a Vietnamese woman adds neither heat nor light to the production. Levinson has, in fact, included more subplots than sense; too many characters are brought on screen for anything to be resolved, and when the film ends--in an utterly predictable way--the audience would be left with a lot of questions, if it cared enough...
GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM In Saigon, 1965, the war sneaks up on Disk Jockey Robin Williams, darkening and then silencing his mad-lib monologues. This high comedy from Director Barry Levinson is 1987's deftest evocation of Viet Nam's surrealism...