Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College of Art, then took a job decorating department store windows. Switching to Manhattan's avant-garde O Boutique, he began designing and was soon hired as house stylist for Henri Bendel, an exclusive store on 57th Street. Burrows says his clothes "make both the wearer and the viewer aware of the body and its potential." This year that means "lots of sweaters and little skirts and cardigan jackets. They're all very clean and simple...
...absurd at this point. The pure sensuality of an affair with Yelena is more apropos of his desires and his capacity to act. Meanwhile, Sonya will fade away in the country, and it is her tragedy--the tragedy of the one person still alive and vital--that touches the viewer most deeply...
Like most concert films, FTA is largely a record of a traveling show that is expected to reach more people as a film. We see little more of the performers than the soldiers did; almost all the "off-stage" sequences are clearly planned. Unless a viewer is completely unaware of the traditional as well as recent disgruntlement in the armed forces, it informs us of little and convinces us of less. With a little less politics and a little more flair, this could have been a film of Bob Hope's Christmas tour. But, then again, you might not believe...
...practical skill with a stick of dynamite to bother his head about such questions. He tries to press Coburn into his big bank scheme, but, instead, Coburn slyly drafts Steiger into the revolution-the Mexican, that is, not the Irish. So many ambushes and detonations ensue that the viewer runs the risk of succumbing to a case of vicarious shell shock...
...give the film makers a break - which is more than they give the viewer - Prime Cut was obviously intended to be a tough, surreal gangster film in the Point Blank mold, a kind of jazzy allegory about brutality and dehumanization. Point Blank, however, had John Boorman directing Lee Marvin. Prime Cut has only Lee Marvin and a director who must have taken a very long lunch hour. Against all odds, Marvin summons up a measure of dignity. Hackman looks abashed...