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...good way towards breaking down the wilful suspension of disbelief which every audience is supposed to have. The game itself serves to destroy the scared concept of the inviolate frame. At one point, Piccoli looks at the television screen, sees his companion running towards a window, rushes off-screen to save him and immediately appears himself in the center of the frame due to the position of the television...
NEAR THE END of Weekend a woman is chewing on a bone. "It's that pig," an off-screen voice tells her, adding as an afterthought, "with those English tourists mixed in." "The ones from the Rolls-Royce?" she asks. "There must be some of your husband too," the voice answers. She continues eating with no reaction. The word "fin" appears on the screen, enlarged at once to "fin du conte" and then changed to "fin du cinema." The sequence reveals Godard's awareness that in Weekend he destroyed the only cinema he loves--the American narrative ("conte") film...
...York, where I Am Curious (Yellow) made its debut, viewers have been the most nonchalant of all. Undoubtedly distracted by worries of pollution and politics, audiences uttered no complaint when the subtitles slipped off-screen for one complete show, leaving nothing but nudes spouting Swedish. Apart from Philadelphia and Senator Dirksen, it seems, Curious has caused only one other stir: The over-the-counter stock of Grove Press, the movie's distributor, was selling at $6.25 in October 1968. Last week as Curious (Yellow) moved out to other major cities shares were over $30, and rising...
...Groucho could inscribe on the head of a pun: "This is indeed a gala day. That's plenty. I don't think I could handle more than a gal a day." He retells the best of the anecdotes from the days when the boys were as funny off-screen as on. Best of all, the book resists the temptation to analyze, observing E. B. White's dictum: "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process...
Applehurst's cheery district nurse is to be killed off in one of the next few installments, leaving June Buckridge without a job and without the identity she has built since the start of the serial six years ago. Off-screen she has a tendency to get drunk, still spouting the platitudes of Sister George--along with her own opinions. Beryl Reid plays her scenes with a witty flair that none of the other characters ever approaches...