Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fabulous cinematography and directoral attention to detail make Pelle, which was named best film at the Cannes Film Festival last year, an outstanding movie. These qualities are evident in an early scene where Lasse and Pelle have just entered their new living quarters. Although the two have been able to transform this sty into an orderly and respectable bedroom, they could not get rid of the many flies...
Swift jiggling in Cafe Ole to the tune of Pee Wee Herman's "Tequila" and a cardboard car chase scene are also clever choreographic touches. And the cast carries off the patented kickline finale with the Pudding's usual burlesque verve...
...only is Doctorow's novel a welltold story, but it also has a poetic quality that barely misses overdescription. In one scene, Doctorow depicts a Bronx market, with "every one of the merchants competing with the same oranges and apples and tangerines and peaches and plums for the same prices," and where merchants shout out their prices. "They called Missus, look, I got the best, feel this grapefruit, fresh Georgia peaches just in. They talked they cajoled and the women shopping talked back...
...Doctorow has adopted Bathgate's code, he amazes with his dexterity. From a Saratoga racetrack to a Bronx orphanage, he manipulates scene and language, and his freedom of form is the product and proof of great control...
...movie, Go Man Go, about the Harlem Globetrotters," he recalls. "In one scene, Marques Haynes dribbles by Abe Saperstein in a corridor. After that, I worked at handling the ball. I didn't want to be just a good big man. I wanted to be a good little man too." For Power Memorial, a high school that no longer exists, he was everything and led the team to 71 straight victories...