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...cross-cultural mix taking shape all around us, able to light up Salman Rushdie-land with a visual daring that must have moviemakers salivating. Two weeks ago, The English Patient won England's prestigious Booker Prize, sharing the award for best novel of the year with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger...
...third, etc. Later, a small army of fox-hunters glide on horseback through an early morning mist. Across the foggy plain they ride, their red coats flapping behind them. Polanski takes his time with every scene, the effects ranging from mesmerizing to anesthetizing. The sumptuous photography of Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet rescues several scenes from fatal tedium, always enchanting the eye even when the mine has wandered. Their compositions of toiling farmers framed by a purple sky are almost painfully beautiful if more than a little reminiscent of Nesto Almendros' work in Day of Heaven...
JERRY GOLDSMITH'S MUSIC is familiar. Geoffrey Unsworth's photography is full of phony compositions and "atmosphere," but since he's dead I won't speak...
...Fosse--in bringing Cabaret to the screen--has done well to sacrifice none of these innovations. The core of his film is still the cabaret numbers themselves, played out on a cramped, cluttered stage given depth and dimension only by Geoffrey Unsworth's cleverly stark lighting effects. Throughout, Fosse's own particular wit as a choreographer of decadence--his "Rich Man's Frug" was one of the best things in his earlier staging of Sweet Charity--serves to summon up a wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari...
Cabaret, Minelli's spunky, Joel Grey appropriately unctuous, and Geoff Unsworth's camera helps out. Pretty good. Gary Theatre...