Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bass guitars of a hard-rock group twang as psychedelic colors splash on the screen. An enraged housewife looms before the viewer, curlers in her hair and hands over her ears. "Turn that noise down!" she bellows, and the insistent pounding fades...
Unlike earlier music programs for children, this one does not toe the classical line. In an allegro collage that threatens the viewer with musical vertigo, the initial program arcs from the Beach Boys to Beethoven, Indian sitar music to music of the Renaissance, the Vienna Boys Choir to the Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans. In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What...
...sure whether she is acting out of political commitment, love for Julia, or simply because she was afraid to display cowardice by refusing her friend's plea. In fact, if the details of Hammett's imprisonment and both writers' blacklisting during the McCarthy era were not well known, a viewer of Julia could justifiably conclude that Hellman's actions stemmed not from conviction but from affection...
...significance of Valentino's legacy, however. The director seems too obsessed with the glory and worship heaped on the character to accommodate this biographical angle, and the film is the poorer for it. It is clear that Russell did not set out to produce a documentary, and no fair viewer should expect such a treatment; yet still it seems that a wiser filmmaker somehow would have worked more of Valentino's background into the movie, if only for the sake of an interesting perspective on a superficially charmed life...
...occasional rehash, so long as the timing is judicious. But Chabrol seems unable to grasp the delicacy that this device requires. The authorities' periodic attempts to sort out the more baffling knots in the narrative come off as hopelessly contrived, and Chabrol's vain effort to draw a confused viewer back into the uneven flow of the story merely succeeds in driving him further away...