Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rained harder and harder, and finally with 7:53 left in the game, the new, mellow, post-graduate, non-Doonesbury Pat McInally shone through...
...Wall makes film mellow twice over. We sit at tables, taste tea and Baby Watson cheesecake, and talk sibilantly. The films are shorts and perhaps have a tendency to subside into vignette. But it is certainly much easier to accept a short than a feature-length film at face value, to kern a message, to retain one final sentiment. Because of this, a well-arranged succession of short takes has as much or more potential than a full-length film for establishing a coherent flowing image. And Off The Wall has put together ten shorts that flow into an undiluted...
...guardian of Lymington" and chose to stay as the police chief of his home town. And ever since has shouldered the various petty sins of his constituency--their drunkeness, their rowdiness, their B&E's, their narrowness--without uttering so much as a complaint. Becoming slightly reflective and mellow now in his old age--due perhaps to the death of his wife (which he has accepted unquestioningly) but also no doubt to the daily administration, orally, of two jiggers of bourbon--he has become the kind narrator and apologist for the provincial orthodoxies of his community; like the stage manager...
...thesis: the chill, sterile, tragic life of Leontes's middle-aged court in Sicilia. In the fourth act, we have the antithesis: the pastoral and exuberant life of the young commoners in Bohemia. The fifth act brings us a synthesis, in which the two components are brought into mellow harmony with each other...
...Mellow Wood, Warm Music