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...current production at the Boston Shakespeare Company (in rep with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) follows this creed wholeheartedly, quoting the above statistics in its program notes and approaching the play with an appetite for "deep meanings" that recalls the legend of the first-time viewer who exclaimed, "I don't know what everyone sees in this play--it's just a lot of cliched quotes strung together." A weighty interpretation is often provocative, even moving. But (the purist cries desperately), there must be a few subtleties of psychology or modernity that even Hamlet does not contain. And under...
...blurred as the wind stirs them. Into this ecstatically concrete world, a ghost intrudes: the shadow of Atget and his shrouded camera falling across a cabbage plant. Mere shades that whisper "I was here" and so wrench the image away from objectivity toward that sense of mutual dependence between viewer and view that lay at the heart of modernism...
...innovative graphic artist who brings strange worlds to extravagant life but cannot animate his actors. And he is still blowing smoke in the audience's face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less welcome than ignored. He will have more fun holding Time Bandits at arm's length-in the movie's illustrated screenplay, published by Doubleday, and available at a price just slightly more than the amount Gilliam's film is likely to take in from befuddled...
...fawn before his audience. Un like one former President of the U.S., who did not like to be photo graphed in his wheelchair, President Caballero will not show up in public without his. He has no physical need for it, understand; he merely finds it useful for inviting viewer pity and respect and boosting the totals on one of his periodic - and thoroughly fraudulent - telethons...
...trained nor eager to display themselves so ruthlessly for millions, and porno stars are unlikely to be convincing in a serious film's nonsex scenes. Audiences may have trouble shifting gears when a character they believe in suddenly impersonates a stag-reel stud. Suspension of disbelief breaks down, viewer becomes voyeur...