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...Amiel has catered this sort of phantasmagoric feast before; he directed Dennis Potter's magnificent TV serial The Singing Detective. Once or twice % Amiel is hobbled by the conflicting demands of a sprawling vision and a thin wallet. The movie starts out of breath and keeps on running. But that's O.K.; in fact, for a couple of hours it's criminally enjoyable. Who would have thought that you could transport three roiling generations of Italians and get Moonstruck in Britain...
...these people face or evade the dour cliches of dead-end domesticity? By expressing their feelings through the poetry of pop songs. Like Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, which also knew how potent cheap music is, Davies' film is laced with dozens of postwar tunes to counterpoint or underline the narrative. In the pub where everyone stops by "just to wet the baby's head," Eileen's pal Micky (Debi Jones) sings an effervescent Buttons and Bows, and Eileen pours her own seething frustration into a passionate rendition of I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces...
CRISTABEL (PBS, debuting Feb. 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). Acclaimed TV dramatist Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective) shifts from fantasy to fact in this four-parter about an Englishwoman who spent World War II as a citizen of Nazi Germany...
...SINGING DETECTIVE Dennis Potter's BBC serial, about a writer lacerated by memory and liberated by fantasy, was an instant cult classic on TV. Now it has barreled onto the big screen -- all 6 hr. 42 min. of singing, dancing, dazzling talking. In either format, a bloody masterpiece...
...enclosed in a brown paper bag. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents," he mutters. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents." It is the sum total of one man's life -- the amount he says he has been trying to borrow from his family in Detroit to ensure his burial in potter's field, and to escape from the death beyond death: "They send you to medical school and cut you up into little pieces -- that...