Word: wert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Laurel and Hardy (to invoke just two other great names), this team specializes in a comedy of severely limited means. There is basically only one gag: the Coyote thinks up ever more elaborate schemes to fell the bird that never wert, and the attempts always backfire. But what makes old Wile E. an immortal figure is what is known in the trade as "character animation"-those marvelously rendered expressions of confidence, cunning, determination, frustration and panic as he finds either the huge rock falling on him or himself falling off the cliff, while the bird scoots off across...
...could also complain about Wert muller's routine storytelling gaffes, but perhaps the movie's most notable irritant is the endless rain. Apparently the rain, like the director's familiar holocaust images over the opening credits, is meant to remind us that we are watching the end of the world. What we see, however, is not the apocalypse but the desperation of a film maker...
...working men who fall in with a band of greedy, manipulative working class women who operate a boarding house. Before getting too enthusiastic about Wertmuller, see this film: the characters are one-sided, the construction is sloppy and the ultimate lesson to be drawn would have appeared simplistic if Wert-muller hadn't lost it along...
...only furthers the myth of a Berlin populated by a handful of manic-depressive refugees clothed in gray sweatshirts. To the 2 million-plus people living freely within the 185 square miles of West Berlin, your comments ring contrary to a firm belief- "Berlin ist eine Reise wert" (Berlin is worth a journey...
Director Wertmuller invests the concentration-camp episodes with a power that reminds us how those images of horror have been turned into familiar cliches. One measure of Wert muller's talents is that she forges all these elements together so easily, probably because she has enjoyed such a varied career. Once an assistant to Fellini, Lina Wertmuller, 45, has directed the ater, mounted musicals, even created a television program of Italian pop tunes...