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...Streetcar Named Desire is quite a different matter, as masterpieces always are. It's nice that four minutes, cut prior to its 1951 release in order to placate the then powerful Catholic Church's Legion of Decency, have been restored. But the important restoration is of a great film to contemporary consciousness. Indeed, comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister...
What the rerelease does is re-establish Streetcar's historical value. You see anew how it opened theater and movies to new realms of psychology and language, gave Brando the showcase that established Stanislavskian subjectivity as the standard for serious American acting and offered director Elia Kazan the chance to develop a style that subtly, hypnotically serves conflicting demands, including the play's for claustrophobia, the actors' for ensemble playing, the movies' for sheer movement...
...might not be controversial for high school seniors to consider whether Tennessee Williams' sexuality fueled the outsider lyricism of A Streetcar Named Desire. But telling six-year-olds, however gently, that some other six- year-olds have two mommies is still a red flag in many households with just one. Some parents involved in the New York City controversy fear that exposure to the subject might predispose young children toward homosexuality. Others simply don't want to teach their kids that gay couples are acceptable. "We're asked to park our values about life-style at the door," complains Joanne...
Other skits include two versions of Stanley Kowalski's rape of Stella DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, using different tones and body gestures. Conceivably, some might think one interpretation is rape and one is not. Raz said, "The scene is an interesting bend on what heroes are all about, on how society heroicizes...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...