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...Perfect, Now Change” begins charting the hilarious, idiosyncratic progression of most male-female relationships. Directed by Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07 and co-produced by Benjamin M. Poppel ’09 and Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater (HRST) took the musical comedy to the Loeb Experimental Theatre stage this past Friday. The show is the perfect choice for HRST to end their season—and a perfect choice for prospective audience members who love musical theater and have ever been on a first date...
...Here, then, was a film that upended narrative, set a new tempo for serious movies and aspired not to theater but to painting. The combination of these innovations, or affronts, made L'Avventura a precedent-setting movie. So did the fierce debate surrounding it. Indeed, you could say that at that Cannes festival - as the professionals loved or hated, puzzled and argued over this beautiful, forbidding artifact - modernist cinema was born...
...Even the controversy about the mysterioso ending of L'Avventura could be seen as good showmanship: give 'em something to talk about on the way out of the theater. Antonioni's films soon became famous for their endings. The last 7-1/2 mins. of Eclipse comprises a series of static, underpopulated street scenes in which none of the major characters appear. Blowup we'll get to in a moment, and Zabriskie Point ends with the shot of a house ... that blows up. The next-to-last scene of The Passenger is one continuous, wildly elaborate tracking shot that lasts...
...Mexican Army was out in force outside the department store all day, looking stern and watchful yet all the while saying that there was nothing to be worried about. By evening, teenagers and families were again at the mall, many lining up for tickets at the mall's 10-theater multiplex. But there is indeed much to worry about in the state of Oaxaca...
...Besides, in the decade before his international success, the cinema offered a busy young man with a seductive intensity something he couldn't readily get from theater: money. "I was very poor at the time, you know," he said. "I already had a lot of children and a lot of women, and money had to be paid out. A good deal of my filmmaking in earlier days came from lack of money." The movies' greatest "woman's director" was also a great lover and careless discarder of women. Rumor had it that the seven lead actresses in his 1964 comedy...