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...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene...
...Moreover, though Field Marshal Rommel was a sick and dispirited man commanding a weakened army, Churchill revived the myth of the invincible Desert Fox so that Monty would have to deal with a worthy foe. Even with the stage so cleverly set, Thompson charges that Monty still fought a static, overly cautious battle, sacrificing far too many...
...does not mean anything that can be translated into words or music. It has no explicitly dramatic or psychological content. Particular movements may evoke emotional responses in the audience, but these responses will vary from person to person. Cunningham is interested in movement itself, "the physical image, fleeting or static." Unlike Graham in "Clytemnestra" or Limon in "The Moor's Pavane," he has never dramatized a legend. Yet his dances posses strong mood, an atmosphere that defines verbal presentation, perhaps because of the ambiguity and constant change involved in any Cunningham dance...
...COUPLE. An alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) are at each other's throats again in this almost literal translation of Neil Simon's Broadway hit. Actor Matthau's comic genius makes amends for the static mise en scéne. BELLE DE JOUR. Ranging easily from anticlerical broadsides to highly polished pornography, this bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a beautiful young wife (Catherine Deneuve) makes a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis...
...perhaps social-science fiction. Literature today is overshadowed by audio-visual art forms that threaten to turn into total pinball-machine environments. But Barthelme, 37, continues to demonstrate that language can be a mixed-media production all by itself. He translates the chipped teacups, navel lint, prattle and random static of life into even rows of words that twitter, bong, flash and glow signals of exquisite distress...