Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movies, which include China Gate, Run of the Arrow, Merrill's Marauders, and Un-world USA. As a producer, he usually shoots them in the days, an extremely low budgets. As a writer, he has a flair for sensationalism, and his-plot ideas are lurid and compelling, though his script construction is sloppy and his dialogue implausible. As a director, Fuller can stand with the best. He is, as critic Andrew Sarris called him, "an authentic American primitive." He rarely uses tricky angles, generally putting his camera directly in front of whatever's happening, and extremely close...
SWEET CHARITY. As a dancing doxy with a heart of gold, Gwen Verdon is one of nature's eternally winning losers. Choreographer Bob Fosse adds redeeming grace to Neil Simon's feeble script...
...contradiction in terms: a truly faithful Biblical film made by a Communist, namely Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who employs only nonprofessional actors and uses a script based entirely on Holy Writ...
Unfortunately, this also means a simple-minded script digestible for enough yokels to pay for all those technical goodies, a film packed with cues for stock responses so nobody will think he's being put on. It means a cutting-speed where every few gags has a punch-line shot held for emphasis until you want to cry "Next!" like a slide-lecturer...
...think The Garden would play passably--perhaps well--if a virtuoso actress were found for the part of Sophia. Certainly the play deserves a better production than the one it is presently receiving at Agassiz. Nervous acting, and very little directing at all, have emphasized the difficulties of the script. Miss Picker herself has chosen to take on the role of Sophia, a very difficult assignment. At one time or another, Sophia is called beautiful, inspiring, fascinating, a good dancer, and a brilliant actress (she must play a gypsy and a clown in bits within the show...