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...there are a couple of road pictures: Jed Weintrob describes his romp across America as a "fictionary" (combination of fiction and documentary with occasional snippets of Jerry Falwell and Barry Manilow); and Lindsay Herman (whose thesis is actually a video, not a film--the difference being a few hundred dollars more for every hour of film footage but lower picture quality) documents a more serious trek across Japan...
Moss says that it is not only entirely incidental that all VES theses happen to be documentaries this year (with Weintrob's dubious exception), but that it is also fortunate for the department. "We try to teach them to do this form and we are glad when they choose this. Most of the students who pursue the film track didn't come here wanting to make documentaries. They chose it because of what they saw in the movie theaters...
Directed by Jed Weintrob...
...claustrophobic Kronauer space is ideal for Shepard's theme of escape, which is particularly prominent in True West in the brothers' arguments about the keys to Austin's car, their only means of exit. Director Jed Weintrob traps the audience in the kitchen with the two brothers and has captured the herky-jerky rhythm of Shepard's dialogue...
...Weintrob's effective staging is evident in a pivotal scene where, to Austin's dismay, Lee barges in on his negotiations with Sol, (John Byrd) the effete producer. Austin's worst fears are confirmed, as Lee quickly wins Sol's friendship with good-natured masculine bombast. By the end of the scene, the brothers' mutual jealously has surfaced, and Weintrob has hidden Austin in the background, where his consternation is initially barely noticeable but soon becomes a focus of attention. Lee, however, has established himself as the "man of the house...