Word: quarreling
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...hard to quarrel with such compassion. The trouble with the Roarers is that their sentiments too frequently lapse into mere bombast. Bad verse in a good cause is still bad verse...
...easy enough to quarrel with McBride's resolutely gloomy portrait of the future. But there is no disputing his distinctive cinematic flair or the definitive excellence of his relatively unknown actors-Steven Curry as Glen, Shelley Plimpton as Randa, and Garry Goodrow as the manic magician. McBride, 29, made Glen and Randa on a slender $480,000 budget, without help or hindrance from the major studios. Austerity and autonomy, combined with genuine talent, have produced one of the best and most original American films of the year...
...better thematic manipulation) with actors who play to the camera rather than to each other and remain generally inexpressive (for avoiding existential schmaltz) in dramatic situations. Strangely, however, he chooses to resolve the conflicts the film has built up theoretically, on this, the fictional level, with a lovers' quarrel over the public exploitation of images. This limited (and counter-productive) issue of personal privacy dominates the last part of the film, neglecting political answers to the problems of how images should be manipulated and how thoughts, feelings, human relationships assume visible forms. But of course almost everybody else has avoided...
...quarrel with Rosen's excesses is to ignore the crowded, incredibly detailed excesses of the world of which he writes. For, again and again, he'll turn a discussion of sports, dress, and, most of all, food into a brilliant metaphorical dissection of the quality of American life-or lack of same. Baseball becomes a game for middle America; "a slow, uneventful review of existence, it serves to reinforce the dull." A visit to an artificial flavoring factory is virtually a confrontation with the war makers, while a sandwich at the Harvard Garden Grill turns into an exercise in peoples...
...films try to recreate those times, they leave out all that would make them appealing. In fact, they are too well made, too self-assured. Their images loom before your eyes and deny the workings of your own imagination. They create a past with which there can be no quarrel. Paula Prentiss supersedes all the memories that she should evoke...