Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: tape tracks Message-ID: <1613@nsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 04:26:58 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1613 Posted: Wed Oct 17 04:26:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 06:52:16 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Castrovalva Lines: 60 More movie reviews of things I should have seen long before they showed up on my television... Hooper - ** (good ole boys and Joe Bob fans, ***) Burt Reynolds plays, suprise!, Burt Reynolds. This time Burt is a stunt man, growing old, but never up. Some good stunts, a relatively bizarre (but uninspired) acting job by Robert Klein as the director. I didn't KNOW 4x4 trucks could go backwards at 55, ma! Honest! A good, clean, simple, fun film. Cat People - *+ (nastassia Kinski ***tilt***) What can I say? I knew what I was getting when I rented it. Kinski's shoulder blades can make an entire issue of Playboy slink away in embarassment. Her acting in this was wooden enough that she could have done better without reading the script, but really, who cares? I think there was a plot, somewhere, but it didn't really bother to intrude on things too much. Warning: rather graphic gore-- especially during the autopsy scene (not recommended for watching over a pepperoni pizza, which I did...) The Dresser - ***** (A first-- a perfect score) I swore it would never happen, and it rarely does. Out of a possible 5 starts, I give the dresser all five. Superb performannces by Finney and Courtney as an aged Shakespearean actor and his dresser (read slave, servant, companion, faithful follower, and greatest fan). One of the most unbelievable fascinating portrayals of theater life I have EVER seen. The script is lucious, the filming is perfect, the lighting is amazing, and the acting is unbelievable. In the small excerpts they gave us, Finney went a long way towards redefining King Lear for me. Little of the movie IS the play-- it is all about the dresser (who is the person in charge of getting the star out there when he is supposed to be there) and how he beats, cajoles, whines, yells, and, finally, loves the old man out to a performance. Finney, as the old and very tired actor, is superb in his portrayal of a man with a sense of duty and an addiction to the theater who at the same time has an edge of senility, frenzied paranoia, failing health, exhaustion, and a general wish to sit down and relax. Electric. See it. As someone who firmly believed that the Big Chill was THE movie, I have to tell you that this film makes it look bush league. It does the Bard and the theater very proud. Bill Cosby. Himself! -- *** Actually a concert style film of his standup routine, Bill is as funny as ever. If you like him, you'll love this film-- lots of kid and wife jokes, always poking fun but never breaking the skin. Richard Pryor, here and now -- ** Another concert comedy film. If you like Richards drug and raunch oriented humor it's worth it. I found it rather flat and uneven at times, definitely not showing his material to all of its potential. More later, including the long threatened 'Attack of the Killer tomatoes' chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA (Editors note: Bistromatics is NOT a typo. Bistromathics is the study of math on an italian waiters checkpad. Bistromatics is the study of Italian cooking on females of the human species. Please quit sending me mail) I'd know those eyes from a million years away....