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...passing of 24 years can do to men who must have been something like those in Diner. In 1957, near the time that Diner's heroes talked, fought and married, a group of Scranton, Pa. high school students won the state basketball championship. Each year, four teammates hold a reunion with their former coach and attempt to recreate the hopeful, confident, if also innocent atmosphere of their high school days...
...latest film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, director Robert Altman weaves these themes into an intricate plot as he depicts the twentieth reunion of the Disciples of James Dean--a small club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with...
...performance. The three major roles are played by Sandy Dennis as Mona, Cher as Cissy, and Karen Black as Joann. These women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...contrast, when sections of the Harvard Band barged in on some of our gatherings at my fiftieth reunion this past spring, and made music, they were great. Everybody really liked it and responded accordingly...
...close-ups in the theater, partly because of the pleasure provided by the interaction of good performers working their way down court, passing some pretty fast and artful dialogue around between them. But in adapting his Pulitzer-prizewinning play about a high school basketball team's 24th reunion with the coach under whom it won the state title, Jason Miller is fouled by the imperatives of the film medium. The intimacy of the tight shot tends to expose the characters' sad life stories, since the big win is a tissue of clichés. Miller's busy...