Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equal to that of West Side Story or Cabaret. A number early in the picture shows the dance-hall ladies, drenched in make-up and neon light, as they coldly ask each "big spender" to come on to the dance floor for "fun, laughs, and a good time." The song, full of cynical Dorothy Fields lyric, brings home in nightmarish tones that world where money turns sex into the sweaty throbbing of the mindless body...
...NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S. Good humor and excellent performances abound in this affectionate tribute to the raunchy days of oldtime burlesque. As a seedy song and dance man, Jason Robards wears a straw boater as naturally as John Wayne wears a Stetson...
When an old eye ailment forced him to drop out of his own golf tournament, the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, Calif., the comedian had a substitute at the ready: that former song-and-dance man, Senator George Murphy. Said Hope of his replacement: "He's certainly made his mark on the Senate floor. He forgot to take his tap shoes...
Facts are no substitute for reality. No matter how skilled, the photographer never reaches the revelations of the great painter-and the documentary-film maker never touches the plane of pure fiction. In his first feature film, The Song and the Silence, director-writer-photographer Nathan Cohen tries to re-create the world of Polish Jewry just before the Nazi holocaust of 1939. To summon up the past, he meticulously compiles scene after scene of scholars poring over the Talmud, women dancing the hora, rabbis lecturing-and finally, Germans plundering. At almost every turn, Cohen, a television news cameraman, betrays...
Despite its incalculable tragic dimensions, the drama of the European Jew remains elusive to all but a handful of films-notably The Shop on Main Street and The Fixer. By being frankly fictional, both films create their own transcendent reality. By trying to be real, The Song and the Silence sings false, proving Santayana's perception: we have to change truth a little in order to remember...