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From: rossen@uiucdcs.UUCP (rossen )
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Subject: Re: Broadway Danny Rose - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 22:27:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 22:27:33 1984
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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.
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"...delicious delicious."
Ken in Champaign
...[pur-ee ihnp4]!uiucdcs!rossen