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...Twilight Zone, "The Man without Memories" is actually a skit from A View from the Roof, performed at Foxbo's Orpheum Theatre, a re-modeled silent movie house from the 1920s. Written by Dave Carley, the production is based on a collection of short stories by Polish-born writer Helen Weinzweig. Carley's dramatization cleverly creates ambiguity that is later resolved through the unfolding of events...
...angry feminists: There is nothing wrong with single-sex institutions. Men, just like women, need to themselves. We need a place to let our baser instincts have free reign, to let go of whatever exterior polish we affect to appease female sensibilities. I find it hard to believe that the educated women of this campus do not appreciate this basic sociological (some might say biological) reality...
...would be somewhat unfair to echo Norton in saying that the Hyperion actors "continually pass[ed] the bounds of usual undergraduate performances." They did, however present more polish than the usual undergraduate Shakespeare shows. Brett Egan '99, as Hamlet, was handed the monumental task of carrying the weight of the show upon his shoulders; while it would take more space than is given to an entire review to dissect an actor's performance of a Hamlet, it can be said that Egan did a generally fine job with the role, making his Hamlet sympathetic enough to carry our sympathy...
...behemoths clogging your local 'plex. But every once in a while a unique film work appears on one screen as a lonely reminder of what cinema can summon in intelligence, scope and power. That would be Decalogue, the 10-part cycle of short films that Krzysztof Kieslowski made for Polish TV in 1988-89. Long withheld from U.S. distribution, the series will be shown this week at Manhattan's Walter Reade Theater. A cinephile's fondest hope is that the series will soon travel to other venues or be released on videocassette. And not a moment too soon, for Decalogue...
...residents of a Warsaw apartment house--revels in the convolutions of melodrama. There are two brutal killings, a few attempted suicides, even a car chase. A perfect child dies. Another child is told, Chinatown-style, that her sister is really her mother. At times Decalogue plays like a Polish Melrose Place...