Word: off-screen
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...action with eyes that have seen it all and ain't telling. You have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William Hurt's eyes move like restless laser beams; Tom Berenger's search the room in masked desperation, trying...
...soon as the film industry invented movie stars, the public caught a case of chronic curiosity about their off-screen lives. Americans idolized the images of actors but still never stopped asking: What are they really like? For years, Hollywood exploited the public curiosity while making no honest effort to answer that basic question; it was left to fan magazines to contrive tales that supposedly revealed what the top players were in private life. But no more. Lately, the outpouring of tell-all and tell-a-lot books by and about filmdom's ranking personalities has grown into...
...Shape gets her when she's balling this orderly in a therapeutic bath. The guy's killed off-screen as the camera fixes on her naked body, loosely wrapped in a sheet, her firm, ripe breasts erect and eager. She thinks the clammy hands caressing her are her lover's--Poetic Justice!--but the Shape adjusts the bath water to scalding and repeatedly shoves her head in it, holding it out of the water long enough for us to see the flesh peeling off and the red and white blobby pulp beneath. Hot stuff! Then the Shape drills a cute...
Elvis made 31 excruciating formula films in 13 years. One off-screen date, Natalie Wood, said he was "terribly conventional ... He didn't drink. He didn't swear. He didn't even smoke! It was like haying the date that I never ever had in high school." But for diversion, "the Guys," Elvis' entourage of good ole boys, would procure women. The requirements: under 18, under 5 ft. 3 in. and under the Elvis spell. Some starlets cooperated by forming threesomes, wrestling in their under pants while the excited King, sated on cheeseburgers, watched from...
...modern, neither the Fowles story nor the framing story, but a third dramatic level. Look at it this way: the viewer is in the screening room of Mike's fevered imagination. This is Mike playing Charles, and Anna playing Sarah. But the film has followed Mike's obsession to the point where he can no longer distinguish between the two. Mike has become not only the on-screen lover, but the off-screen lover and the film maker as well, and this French Lieutenant's Woman is the film he would have made...