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The film is shot in gaudy studio sets, colored with vulgar purples and red-oranges. It is peopled with studio bosses, agents, wardrobe women, and sycophants. The action unfolds in Hollywood mansions, Sunset Strip restaurants, film studios and tacky hotels with flashing neon signs, concluding with a premiere at Grauman...
The play takes an almost maddeningly undramatic form. The first act consists of an interrogation of the murderer's husband (Richard A. Dysart) by a man who stands in the shadows and is known as The Questioner (Alvin Epstein). In the second act he interrogates Claire Lannes (Mildred Dunnock...
In the progression from Mao to East, the latter film is the most violent in the Group's attempts to structure through sound our apprehension of visual meaning. At one point the screen shows us a green field, and the narrator screams, "Red! Red! Red!" Earlier, a four-minute shot...
It may be that this time Mrs. Spark herself has succumbed to the powers of her prose. Despite her sheer skill and concision-or perhaps because of them-the book is too schematic. It also seems a rather self-consciously "modern" novel. Though the author's descriptive grasp of...
To interpret his plays, a good guide is a necessity. He exists in Martin Esslin (The Peopled Wound; Doubleday; $5.95). Author of The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: The Man and His Work, Esslin is a genial host of a critic. He shares an avant-garde playwright with his...