Word: screen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs Disney, indeed. These eight weeks of animation--this weekend is the third--were kicked off by the auspicious "Thirteenth International Tournee of Animation." Center Screen's showings at Carpenter Center of independent films are matched only by the Whitney Museum and Film Forum in New York. Here in Cambridge the Off the Wall Theater in Central Square screens the only other on-going series of short movies, animation included, around metropolitan Boston. As Barry Levine, program director for Center Screen, put it, "It is appropriate that Center Screen be the largest independent animation showcase in the country, because Harvard...
...Taxi Driver, he managed to create a tension between the hard core or 'new morality' and the religious ferocity of the old morality within the character of Travis Bickle. In Hardcore, Schrader relies on the obvious: Grand Rapids family life and California street life confront one another on the screen. His device is too simple, and the extreme images have no force. The director's lack of involvement with the film lowers it to the level of a porn film. Schrader uses a classic box-office formula--a little sex and scandal combined with middle-class moral outrage--to make...
...these flaws dwindle in significance when you looks to the grandeur of the production's central work, Eh Joe. Holding court over the Ariel Chamber Ensemble, Worth sits directly beneath a gigantic video screen on which we see projected the face of the play's central character, Joe. Joe is haunted by the voice of a girl who once left him and his anguish increase as he mentally reenacts past relationships with his mother and a discarded Ophelia-both of whom he destroyed through neglect. The camera repeatedly closes in on Joe's face as the girl's taunts become...
...Strangers for Bruce Dern, but they'll be surprised at how the stage softens him, neutralizing the eccentricities on which he has built a fascinating film career. Sherman Yellen's drama, about the stormy relationship between Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson, might have been written as a dull screen biography of a famous American, but Hollywood stopped investing in those bland tear-jerkers decades ago. So it winds up on Broadway, with a film star intent on "flexing his acting muscles" in a role that taps a fraction of his considerable talents...
...specialty), to get drunk and be irrepressibly untactful, exposing the hypocrisy of others, to despair and age and writhe in agony. Dern does well, especially considering he's been off stage for 19 years, but the quality that makes him special, that sometimes seems too intense for the big screen, is imperceptible on stage. You'd think that his body and features would be sufficiently mobile to make Dern a great stage actor, but Yellen's writing, for all its superficial energy, never allows him to take off. Yellen's Sinclair Lewis is so completely within Dern's range that...