Weightless’ allegories need more emotion
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 7, 2007
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- Mind Games I
The imagination knows its own way, but it sometimes needs marching orders.
- Unfettered farce
Farce is designed for more than pleasant laughter and fingertips-to-palm applause. In celebration of that, an all-stops-out production of Molière’s Tartuffe is being staged at Brown University Theatre (through October 4), and it gets the audience to put the roar in uproarious.
- Life and how we live it
We're far too close to life to see it accurately, aren't we? With noses pressed up against our problems and delights, we need our perceptive artists — such as Chinese playwright Gao Xingjian — to remind us of what's really going on.
- Wave, goodbye
Who needs snakes on a plane when they infest so many stage families?
- The Misanthrope
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to be perfect.
- Elvis
This article originally appeared in the August 23, 1977 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
- The Forbidden Kingdom
Hong Kong action stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li don’t stray too far from type in this big-screen fairy tale: Chan plays a drunken kung fu master and Li’s a stoic monk with lethal reflexes.
- Leatherheads
Behind the camera and in front of it, George Clooney has glorified screwjobs (Chuck Barris) and romanticized bygone eras.
- Seoul mates
Korean filmmakers reinvent Hollywood genres and conventions much the way their Asian counterparts do, but my sense is that they tend to put everything in a broader context.
- The war games
The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on.
- Paint by numbers
Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women are really one tall woman, and she’s a tall order.
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