Word: nickelodeon
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...Nickelodeon Cinemas 606 Commonwealth...
...those moviegoers whose film needs cannot be fully sated in Cambridge. Boston movie houses should fulfill your cinematic appetites. The Nickelodeon Theatres can be reached by the Green Line and show the most recently released foreign films as well as minor-league American movies. The theater is a worth a trip if just to sample its fancy snacks of homemade brownies and exotic fruit juices...
...with peripheral characters about whom one could not care less. The language bruises the ear, ricocheting between period brassiness ("There's one slick bozo," "There's this bimbo there givin' me the glad eye") to sorry flights of pseudopoetic home truths. On the other hand, the nickelodeon-like music of Claibe Richardson tickles the ear. Apart from Dunaway, the only one who threatens to run away with the show is Designer John Lee Beatty, whose delightfully real open-air trolley car crisscrosses the stage on real tracks. -By T.E. Kalem
...train or a wail. Tonight the carnival's noise prevails. The place is packed, the faces glowing orange and red in the wild spinning lights. At the giant revolving swing, a man solemnly takes tickets and the children mount the seats in pairs. Slowly the machine turns; slowly the nickelodeon starts up; and the chains that hold the swings grow taut until they parallel the ground. Suddenly the children are on their sides in the air, whirling above Belfast, impelled from the center by centrifugal force...
Milos Forman seems to have understood this. The film's first shot focuses on a pair of black hands striding over piano keys, then pulls back to reveal a nickelodeon screen whose newsreel image is closing in on some machinery. Step back for the long shot; move in for the closeup. Distance and involvement, irony and sympathy. Working with Playwright Michael Weller, his collaborator on the 1979 film version of Hair, Forman concentrates on one main story and one subplot-Coalhouse Walker's rise to notoriety and Evelyn Nesbit's career as America's first...