Word: roseland
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...suggest that one night be set aside for a battle-of-the-sexes program? The aggressive husbands meet aggressive wives for a real bash; meanwhile, the poor battered husbands and wives could relax at the Roseland Ballroom...
...gang rumble, a gang bang. By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself. We might as well be at Roseland...
...film is a work of fiction, rather than the documentary it might have been, and it creaks to beat the band. Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala tells three stories about Roseland habitues without revealing a valid emotion. The first anecdote, which resembles an episode from TV's old Twilight Zone series, concerns a widow (Teresa Wright) so obsessed with her past that she and the audience see a vision of her youthful self every time she gazes in a mirror...
Once the hallucinations disappear, Roseland glides on to the banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...
Jhabvala, a talented novelist (Heat and Dust) and scenarist (Shakespeare Wallah), knows better than this. She and Director Ivory should also be aware that audiences distrust booming epiphanies of the cruel demands made by human affections. Still, Roseland is probably immortal. It has survived much in its long history, and it will doubtless survive the film that bears its name...