Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!rossen From: rossen@uiucdcs.UUCP (rossen ) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Broadway Danny Rose - (nf) Message-ID: <5469@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 22:27:33 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5469 Posted: Wed Feb 8 22:27:33 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 06:18:00 EST Lines: 32 #R:pegasus:-88300:uiucdcs:10700057:000:1554 uiucdcs!rossen Feb 8 15:37:00 1984 Boy! A topic I haven't thought about in years, rekindled into a nice blaze! I speak of "Interiors." I must pity as awfully gullible anybody who took "Interiors" seriously. I thought Woody Allen since "Annie Hall" (which I really enjoyed) fell into a self-centered rut, what with "Manhattan" and "Stardust Memories" and all, but "Interiors" was a REAL abomination. Clearly, Allen was trying to work in early Ingmar Bergman techniques. Now, however, that even Bergman himself doesn't make movies like that anymore, the techniques and the horribly contrived lines seemed cliched and over-stylized, thus making the movie look more like a mockery than a tribute. It reminded me of the short subject Bergman parody, "La Duva," which was a scream, but I gathered that "Interiors" wasn't INTENDED to be funny. Nevertheless I, as well as the entire audience (no joke) in the theatre where I saw the film, ended up laughing hysterically at most of the lines. As an example of what I mean -- the entire film is in tones of grey, white, tan, except Maureen Stapleton's character, the only one who has some life, who of course wears bright red. Is this blatant or what? In the final scene, the daughters move one by one into adjacent profile, stare out the window and utter dispassionate and meaningless lines: "The sea is so peaceful." ---"Yes." puh-LEEEZE!! Those who saw some merit in the film [I clearly didn't] are welcomed to write. -------------------- "...delicious delicious." Ken in Champaign ...[pur-ee ihnp4]!uiucdcs!rossen