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...collage by David Maxwell, the dancers as a tightly interwoven group walk diagonally across the stage while a film projects closeups of the maze of heads and necks onto the screen behind (mixing media is apparently an irrestible temptation these days). The patterns are admittedly beautiful, but with the static beauty of a painting. The result is a series of movements, mostly unaesthetic, leading up to and away from a few more or less aesthetic tableaus. That is not dance...
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway comedy of an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his fussy, divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transformed to the screen virtually unchanged. Actor Matthau more than makes up for the static mise en scène with his comic genius...
...Poverty is a psychological process which destroys the young before they can live and the aged before they can die," says Yale Psychologist Ira Goldenberg. "It is a pattern of hopelessness and helplessness, a view of the world and oneself as static, limited and irredeemably expendable. Poverty, in short, is a condition of being in which one's past and future meet in the present ? and go no further...
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway comedy of an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his fussy, divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transformed to the screen virtually unchanged. Actor Matthau more than makes up for the static mise en scene with his comic genius...
...beautiful, flexible, nor functional--consisting largely of sliding stair units and walls bearing faded and indifferently rendered Egyptian wall motifs--the use Chapman makes of them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly in the frequent crowd scenes, when the groupings suggest at once the linear composition of classical art, and the luxury of a Cinemascope biblical epic. This...