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Set Aside Notions About Actors in Animal Suits: ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ Is an Intensely Clever, Richly Textured Farce
This picture is pure slapstick — done with a nod-and-a-wink, but also blessedly absent of self-aggrandizement. The out-and-out goal of this hyperkinetic film is to prompt laughter.
For Some, the Good Stuff in New Documentary About the ‘Olympics of Arts’ May Be Too Buried To Find
Trim 30 minutes from ‘Taking Venice’ and you’d have a solid one-hour special tailor-made for PBS. Otherwise, only art world cognoscenti will get much traction from this assemblage.
Fans of 1980s Movies May Want To Tread Carefully Among Film Forum’s Many Offerings in ‘Out of the 80s’
Most of these pictures were among our reviewer’s mainstays back in the day. Yet can the warm-and-fuzzies waylay one’s contemporary standards of taste?
In New Autobiography, Glenn Loury Distinguishes Between the ‘Cover Story’ and the ‘Real Story’
In ‘Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative,’ Loury is peculiarly cognizant of those who might cast a jaundiced eye on how one man’s moral compass may, or may not, correspond to his behavior.
Dead at 98, ‘the King’ of B Movies, Roger Corman, Leaves Behind a Distinctive Legacy
The list of luminaries whose careers Corman set into motion would clog the works of a Hollywood ‘Who’s Who.’
At Long Last, It Is ‘Time of the Heathen’ at Lincoln Center
Peter Kass’s picture, an unclassifiable example of independent cinema that’s screening at New York for the first time since its release 63 years ago, plays out like a comic grotesquery as imagined by Flannery O’Connor.
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