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Jonathan. a German vampire flick that barely qualifies as kitsch. The film is tinted nauseous blue, the camera pans at a nauseous pace. If that isn't sickening enough, the movie lacks everything from narrative to a personna--to a reason for being. Harvard Square...
...Personna. One of Bergman's greatest if not his most difficult films. The theme of doubling is played out formally, and as a psychological crisis of being between two women. The film defies meaning. At bottom it is an exploration into how deeply something can be known, and an assertion that total knowing in the end means self-destruction. The personnae, to survive, need to preserve the integrity of their masks. Because on the other side of the masks lies absolute cruelty. Brattle Theatre...
...controls James Beam distillers, Duffy-Mott foods and Swingline, a maker of stapling machines. Liggett & Myers, which has moved into liquor, pet foods and household cleaners, gets just over half of its sales outside the tobacco field. Philip Morris owns Miller High Life beer, Clark chewing gum and Personna razor blades...
...were clumsily spotted by pools of light cast from above. Thus foreshortened from overhead, the desired illusion that the dancer's motions cut through space was difficult to sustain. Instead, performers often looked as though they were progressing from one focus to another. Only two choreographers. Catherine Stern in Personna and Wendy Summit in Void tried different lighting. In Personna a shaft of light was thrown from stage left like a flashlight beam. In contrast Void was nullified by the trick appearance of the house lights, which remained on throughout most of the dance...
...Beatles have another delicate device with which they involve their audience--use of the personna. It never failed Robert Browning who made it famous in such poems as "My Last Duchess." Most of the songs are built around a certain personality whom we know pretty well after a couple of listenings, and it is by writing about different kinds of persons, not just different kinds of loneliness, that the Beatles cut their huge main theme down to life size...