Reviews

I had just seen it for the first time, and was afraid my friend who has...um..certain resources...would forget to--um--make it available to me. But he did, he did.

I found all the acting, including Caron's. more than satisfactory. Morley and Aylmer are especially funny as two of the doctors ("stimulate the phagocites!" "Bah! A blackguard is a blackguard!") Boqarde is at his most delightful and easy as a gifted but COMPLETELY amoral artist. Oddly, his innocent wife knows all about it in a way. He only has two weaknesses, she says: money and women. Jane Austen says love and money are all there is, so I guess...that about covers it.

Yes, the technicolor is a bit brutal...

"Remember the burning bush?"

..and when, and from where--will I ever see it again? I was 24, and saw it in Chicago. It astonished me with its understatement, its true-to-life behavior, its laying bare of the prejudice I saw around me every day.

I had already seen "Dead of Night"--in which Dearden directed the frame, and the first episode ("Room for just one inside, Sir!")--and had found these parts of the film nearly as impressive as the Cavalcanti (Michael Redgrave as a ventriloquist tortured by his dummy...or..not?).

I got "Victim" about 2 years ago, and it's one of my favorite films.

Dearden seems singularly lacking in humor...until you realize--there's nothing really funny going on, is there? Surely, there's a VHS tape somewhere....

GLAAD has just nominated this episode of "American Dad" for an award as promoting and defending gay life. It is up against "Forever Blue" (CBS) from "Cold Case"--which I KNOW to be worthy of the award, if not an Oscar...that the Acadamy missed last time around. So What is going on? I haven't seen the show...offensive? Someone better tell GLAAD in a hurry. I assume the group (I'm adding words I don't really have to say, except I don't have ten lines yet) referred to is the Log Cabin Republicans. I find it really strange that someone thinks the show the equivalent of a visual gay-bashing, while GLAAD thinks it's great.

As for Lincoln, I have been in love with him since I was 5, whatever his sexual orientation was.

that all of their family members (including baby and dog--if any) have numerous orafices, into which protuberances, which all family members also have (including baby, and dog--if any--)can fit? And that some of these orafices are commonly used for defecation, urination and vomiting, which can be done into the open orafices of all the other family members (including baby and dog--if any)? How funny can the "tell me what your act is about?" part of this movie be? YAWN...for the most part, the comics stick to this sort of content for the development part of their "Aristocrats" joke.

The only person who stuck strictly to the format of the joke and was still real, real funny was Whoopie Goldberg--imaginative, wonderful mugging, original...etc. The other people who were funny broke the rules---they used a different punchline ("The Osbornes"), told a clean joke and then then gave the act a filthy title ("The C*cksucking M*the*ckers"). The mime was a great mime, but told the SAME OLD STORY, the magician was dexterous, but ditto. Eric Hartman and his three friends were good, because they kept interrupting him with exclamations of disgust, and at the end said "I don't get it." and Eric added, "Well, neither do I really."

It's funny what a lot of grownups think is funny...I guess they do. The joke is not worthy of the comics or the direction that went into making the movie...

Maybe I should see it again? Nah, I don't want to.