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...point of the late Joe Orton's play Loot-not the only point, but a prominent one-was outrageous and exhilarating bad taste. Director Silvio Narizzano, no stranger to bad taste himself (Georgy Girl, Blue), changes Orton's cyanide cocktail into a fey demolition derby...
Many of the scenes in Tennessee Williams' plays take place at night. For his characters, this is a time of terror. Alone, heart-hungry, desolate of spirit, they reach out for a voice, a touch, any kindly stranger who may help them make it through the night...
...began to wonder how Barbara had felt when I was out to so many meetings at night." On several of the evenings Barbara is home, Maurice must vanish-she runs a consciousness-raising session there, and men are forbidden. "Sometimes," he says, "it makes me feel like a stranger in my own house." Barbara has a few reservations of her own. "If I had it to do all over again," she says, "I would have a partnership contract rather than get married. I want none of the baggage that comes with marriage today. Like the blacks, I just want...
...guilt he can no longer distinguish between the real and the fantasized, his shame and uncertainty color the movie. At least this much is clear: Yanos, an ordinary fisherman, saves from the river a naked girl. His wife revives her and easily accepts into the family this quiet, mysterious stranger whose past--even the attempted suicide--remains unexplained. Yanos, however, is powerfully attracted to her and is caught between his (to him) unacceptable desires and his consequent unresolvable guilt...
...Confession, Brattle Theatre, 5:30, 9:35. With The Stranger, 7:50. Until...