Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brecht once wrote that the actors in his plays needed to remember that they could not become the characters they portrayed. An audience, Brecht said, had to be forced into viewing a drama with critical detachment. To pretend that the theatrical world is real or to win an audience's...
Most of the actors behave with the sort of animation generally reserved for lyings-in-state, although Cloris Leachman's Mrs. Miller is skittish and well observed. Bogdanovich, a hugely eclectic director, borrows heavily here again. The use of a popular tune-Maggie, in this instance-as a sort...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this otherwise sleazy movie is its laissez-faire morality. Private eyes, and movies about them, generally adhere to a moral code so strict that it often looks sentimental. Black Eye remains unruffled about everything from homosexuality and runaway kids to mind-warping evangelism and...
Strange Cargo. One of Frank Borzage's (Seventh Heaven) presumably sentimental and presumably wonderful old pictures. Made in 1940 with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Peter Lorre.
Chautauquas were a form of adult education for farmers and tradespeople that flourished in the last half of the nineteenth century. They were a cross between the travelling tent-show and the camp-meeting. They were the country relatives of the Lyceum lectures where Whitman exhorted and praised the "common...