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Years ago, when Edmund Wilson wrote an acerbic essay on mystery novels, his title - and his theme - was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" The same skepticism might be directed toward a subspecies of the mystery genre known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters, who could care that the fuse won't light or the tumblers won't fall...
...original. By far the worst sin of the film can be attributed to the censors, who apparently disliked even the idea of Stanley attacking Blanche, let alone its graphic illustration. So the climatic rape scene is not climactic but ambiguous, which leaves the close of the film, wherein Blanche is shown completely psychotic, highly unsatisfactory. Unless it is clear that there is a rape, one of Streetcar's themes is subverted and its resolution arbitrary rather than inevitable and tragic...
...WHOM HE VISITED IN PEKING IN 1965: "For Mao, only China counts. His first problem is to give every Chinese enough to eat and, second, to create a sense of nationhood among 800 million Chinese. To understand Mao's attitude, you must know wherein his genius lies. Whereas Marx and Lenin placed their faith in the working class as the revolutionary force, Mao put his in the peasantry. But in the Cultural Revolution, Mao employed an unknown force, one never used before as such in a revolution: youth...
Penn's obvious strategy--one that has worked for both squads over the past two years--would encompass a bird-dogging tactic, wherein four or five runners hover near the top two Crimson men, and force them to run off their normal pace, alternately passing them, until they burn...
...MEMORIES of Underdevelopment does lip service to progressive filmmaking; and there too it cops out. It includes phony pieces of self-criticism; a pseudo-reflexive section wherein Elena, wanting to become an actress, has the hero take her to ICAIC, the Cuban film institute, where he just happens to know a director who has found some pieces of old Hollywood films cut out by Battista's censors, and who wants to incorporate them into a new film he's making-he doesn't know quite how, his film will be a "collage" of social bits and pieces; and thus Alea...