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Also this issue: Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign The Punk Moms' Club Behind the Screens Movie Shorts |
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August 1- 7, 2002
movie shorts
CITIZEN KANE
Orson Welles’ incendiary mock-biopic has been voted the Greatest Film Ever Made so many times that most people’s eyes glaze over as soon as you mention it. It’s like lecturing them on the health benefits of wheatgerm: nice, and can you pass the salt? Leaving Kane -- released here in a newly-struck 35mm print -- untouchably up on the world’s largest pedestal does no one any favors, Welles least of all. Even 60 years after its original release, Kane is still dazzlingly inventive, playing games with the structure of the medium few have had the courage or bravado to replicate. For all its over-the-top drama and twisted psychology (which Welles himself dismissed as “dollar-book Freud”), Kane is fundamentally a young man’s movie, full of the giddy exhilaration of a brash, supremely confident artist crossing into a brand new medium. A sensation of the New York theater (most notably for his celebrated “voodoo Macbeth “), Welles was given an extraordinarily generous contract with RKO; he called the studio “the biggest electric-train set a boy ever had.” In other words, as much as he cared for self-expression, Welles was in it to amuse himself. --Sam Adams
MARTIN LAWRENCE LIVE: RUNTELDAD
(Not reviewed.) A haiku:
Martin's so crazy,
You better see his movie
Or he might hit you.
(UA Cheltenham)
MASTER OF DISGUISE
(Not reviewed.) A haiku:
Oh, Dana Carvey,
You were a funny George Bush!
Now you're a turtle.
(AMC Andorra; UA Cheltenham; UA Grant)
