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Dunster Dining Hall: Wener Herzog's Nosferatu, the Vampyre: Friday and Saturday, 8, 10; Sunday, 8 only...
...WHEN YOU SHOOT in elephant, he sometimes stays 10 days on his feet before topping over," a character declures near the begining of Fitzearruldo. With this hit of incident dealogue, the German director Wener Herzog has hit open a sadly apt metaphor forhis new film. Over a 21/2 hour stretch of celluloid, Fitzearruldo lurches and becomes like some Teatonic pachyderm. Drunk on its own significance it dies at our feet collasping under its own weight...
...young film makers (Ryan Listman and Frank Cavestani), seeking money to make a movie about Lenny Bruce, agree to make a quickie pornographic movie for $10,000. They hurl themselves into the project with such enthusiasm that one of their girl friends (Joy Wener) becomes unnerved. After an orgiastic night of filming in a loft decorated with silks and exotic lighting effects, Ryan has a bitter fight with Joy. She accuses him of enjoying the pornography; he claims that she "puts him uptight." He finally walks out, and she is left to weep alone...
Fred Baker's direction is determinedly uninspired, and his actors-with the exception of the alluring Miss Wener-are lackadaisical. What gives Events some small distinction is its sense that young people can be destroyed by the very freedom they cherish and often exploit...
...Readers Wener and O'Connor. Those 15 "Fort Type" Liberty ships (built in Canada for the U.S. in the early days of the war) are indeed coal-burners...