Word: neuroticisms
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Paul's courtship catalyzes the lesbian relationship between the two girls, and for a while the triangle is a well-established and valid dramatic situation. But the creaky, mechanical ending (for which Lawrence deserves the blame) is a culpable copout. The actors deserve better. Anne Heywood, despite her non...
Bellocchio put up most of the mon ey for Fists in the Pocket himself, cast it with friends and beginners willing to take a chance, and shot it at a villa that belonged to his mother. The stark, Faulknerian story of Fists in the Pocket is so gruesome that it...
Hurry sundown by Otto Preminger. Bernard Shaw postulated that great playwrights by definition write great plays, and this is certainly the easiest way to defend Preminger's' Hurry Sundown, a difficult and dramatically unrewarding film. Like most of the great European directors who work in Hollywood, Preminger, takes little of...
A brilliant young college graduate with a degree of innocence (Dustin Hoffman) returns to his parents' home in Los Angeles. There he is assaulted by fatuous friends of the family who entice him with offers. Most are commercial: "I have only one word for you," burbles a Babbittical businessman...
SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman constructs a comedy of offhand cruelty. Forcing his audience to laughter while smashing their shibboleths, Actor Jerry Orbach is a one-man implosion as a super neurotic who spends his Riviera holiday stalking around a chateau in his bathrobe, screaming maledictions through the night at...