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Except for the solid, winning craftsmanship of Brigitte Mira in the title role, the picture is at once forced and slapdash. Fassbinder is restless in an uninspired sort of way with his camera-as if he distrusts the holding power of the dialogue and the situations he is covering. And well he might be. Whether from left or right, there is something terribly predictable about the way Mother Kusters' tormentors reveal their duplicity. The film makes all the right comments about what is wrong with a lot of things these days, but it does not speak very artfully about...
...quintessential master of a game that would no longer be familiar to present-day players. He was a slapdash hitter who careened along the basepaths and the endless outfields of the old ballparks with reckless abandon. He had an uncanny sense of the strike zone and surprising power for a man who stood only 5 ft., 4 in. tall...
...Hasty Pudding stays true to form, it will be presenting another adaptation of itself February 25 through March 30th.- Talented leads, unshapely calves and borrowed gags are the hallmarks of a Pudding show. Don't think that a chorus line in drag means a slapdash show. Pudding productions are often the slickest in town. The director, designer and leading man (aren't they all leading men?) are veterans of last year's show...
...this bathroom wall style. Subtitled "A Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog," it is put out by POINT, some sort of non-profit subsidiary of Portola Institute, the wonderful people who brought you The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Epilog, and numerous other updates. The Quarterly shares the slapdash grafitti layout that made The Catalog great bedtime reading, interspersed with long articles on topics like saddles and trappings, space colonies, and what's left of the New Left. There are also interviews with at least nominally interesting people like Marlon Brando and astronaut Russell Schweickart...
...bring on a trio of Japanese youths who have run away from an internment camp. Their appearance triggers the film's one action sequence. Marion and most of Bidwell's male population beat the woods and brave the rapids in search of the three boys-a slapdash man hunt and a suitably awkward ending for this gangling, occasionally affecting little movie. Jay Cocks