Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fell in love at first sight. It's the sort of city I'm glad to be married to." The indefatigable Composer-Director-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti was at it again, in what could be the greatest -and riskiest-romance of his long career in music and the performing arts: launching an American version of Italy's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. Menotti created the original festival in June 1958, transforming the quiet old Umbrian hill town of Spoleto into an international center of the arts...
...unfeeling. In Molly, feelings and emotions are not only unguarded, they are sometimes nakedly out of control. What comes as a surprise is to find Gray making a defense of lies told out of a tenderness for others: "If we didn't lie to the people we love and live with, we wouldn't be able to live with them...
...does not provide the claustrophobic mood that the play clearly demands. Tom Waites is fine as Oliver, and Pauline Flanagan's Eve is a model of laced-up propriety masking inner compassion. Christina Pickles conveys the teasing coquettishness and parched loins of Molly well, but never makes her love for the boy convincing. For a man who is obsessed by the approach of death and his wife's infidelity, Michael Higgins' Teddy is a shade too passive...
...brilliant perfumery chemist playing hooky on a Venezuelan island, and Catherine Deneuve, as an ex-nightclub hostess on the lam with a stolen Toulouse-Lautrec. She nearly gets the chemist killed in a highway chase, invades his island and sinks his boat, so naturally he falls in love with her. He locks her out of his house, tries to deport her bodily and finally knocks her out with a pineapple, so naturally she falls in love with him. All this, in the right hands, could make a diverting screwball comedy. These are not the right hands. The film...
...land of Scortch, peopled by animalistic mutants, revives the lost art of war and attacks Montagar, a pastoral realm of elves and gentle wizards. "They have weapons and technology," an elf says of the attackers. "We only have love." Bakshi's visual effects at times are striking - stylized war footage superimposed on animated battles, pastel medievalism for Montagar, an updated, bombed-out Piranesi look for Scortch...