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...decades, Jean-Luc Godard has been cinema's master of collage. His films assemble scraps of dust-jacket wisdom, revolutionary rhetoric, sexual aggression, the music and the language of the streets, images from books, TV, magazines and billboards, forming a mosaic that melds the graphic wit of a Braque guitar with the anarchic intensity of a kidnaper's ransom note. In Every Man for Himself, the first Godard film to be distributed in the U.S. since 1972, he has tried to make an accessible movie while still speaking in his steely, ironic voice. But Godard will...
...nice touches are evident. Stardust Memories actress C.J. Critt, as Columbia, Frank N. Furter's groupie, adds a freaked-out Haight Ashbury spaciness to her role; baton twirler champion Dennis Daniels portrays glistening muscle-god Rocky Horror, a Neanderthal in the film whose most eloquent line is "ugh!" with wit and gymnastic talent; and Steve Lincoln, as the narrator, hurries his lines, but the former ulcerridden CBS executive does well as the staid arm-chair commentator who occasionally trots into scenes to join the aliens and transvestites...
...16th century Japan a thief is saved from crucifixion because he looks like Lord Shingen, a clever and determined warlord who may have the strength and wit to unite a feudal nation under his banner. It is his idea to train the criminal as his double, against the day he himself is wounded or otherwise unable to inspire his troops in battle. This, in time, the kagemusha, or "shadow warrior," successfully manages. But then the dying leader conceives the notion of having his stand-in attempt a more difficult impersonation: Shingen wants the kagemusha to take over his life entirely...
...Bear Bryant is a massive presence, a powerful man, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs., with sharp eyes and a sharper wit carefully sheathed by a down-home demeanor. His face is seamed and sunbaked from a lifetime on practice-field towers and stadium sidelines. His voice, a rich Southern drawl, is rarely raised; there is seldom any need...
...CRITIQUE of Didion could be done in the soporific manner of a sermon, but instead it's pulled off with bitchy wit and the "Oh, come on" acuteness of a woman with ardent, no-nonsense opinion. Here she attacks Didion's infuriating preference for sensibility over sense...