Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adams House Gender-Bending on the Big Screen Series. "Maedchen in Uniform" at 7:30 p.m. Claverly Common Room. Free...
...crowd went wild upon hearing the opening bars of the first encore, "Screen Writer's Blues." Opening with the surreal lines "exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers/jewels cleaving skin between breasts," "Screenwriter's Blues" is a lyrical masterpiece, a fascinating Beat-inspired attack on the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. The deal pan, nearly-spoken delivery of the lines together with the repeating bass line and horn-like keyboard sounds, created the type of mesmerizing tune that lingers in the subconcious well after the show...
When a script of unrealized potential is coupled with an inexperienced director, the actor have their work cut out for them. For the most part in this film, they do admirably well. McDermott is an impossible position, being on-screen for most of the movie and doing the same things over, and over but he gets a lot of mileage from the emotional intensity that worked for him as Clint Eastwood's partner in "In the Line of Fire...
Animated wonton soup and flying chopsticks dance around the screen in the cartoon-like opening credits of "Double Happiness," writer/director Mina Shum's debut feature. Strangely, the tone of cutely-stylized disorder established in this stir-fry beginning sets the mood for the remainder of the film...
...astoundingly eccentric task of portraying multiple Kirk Douglasses in multiple roles with multiple jutting chins. For two minutes (its entire length) the short is a welcome piece of absurdity. "Triangle" is a sexy piece of modern dance done in water-color and finger paint. Lithe bodies swirl across the screen in a semi-psychedelic fantasy which looks a lot like love-making done to the fierce beat of drums...