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...Her limited array of pouts is claims belongs to her...

...With a plot striving to be so ultra contempo- it...

...Nevertheless, she's Legal Eagles, featuring Robert Redford and Debra Winger, called on to get fond of Redford (just once, I'd love to see a has been billed as director Ivan Reitman's first "mature" screenplay defy the conventions...

...some don't fizz to the surface until July...

...To him, Tyson, at first only a most painful slowness...

...Splash...

...Such publicity about the director's progress that surrounds the film, an august periodical does, occasionally, dip into the arts...

...Her pieces consist of images that save her friend...

...The last ances...

...work...

...It reflects Clarke's years with Pilobolus in its use of THERE IS a small movie house in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, movements that emphasize the athleticism and control that is where the owner welcomes the customers as though so important to the Pilobolus dances...

...It's simply part of her ironically romantic song, which fits the film's mood and plot...

...ing in a role...

...With the eventual appearance of veteran THEFT & FLAIR British actor Terence Stamp as the head of the prestigious New York gallery at odds with our heroes, we get a classy, even if 'EAGLES' & 'MONA LISA' predictable, villain...

...Presumably the theater- of the men wears shoes on his hands and, as he contorts his Commonweal: 406...

...This allows for plenty of "mature" thinner than the Nordic profile that got her the role...

...She ought to...

...The best line in the film belongs to a cop making an arrest, who thereafter disappears...

...advanced brouhaha, including a full article in the New York But once past the star aura, ritzy production design, and Times Sunday Magazine the weekend before its release...

...Watching her attempt deep feeling here in some Darryl Hannah, who is accused of stealing a painting that she "performance art" is painful...

...When was the last time Redford was genuinely absorbtwo films were prime early June releases in 1981 and 1984...

...The worst acting in the film is by Darryl Hannah...

...M OoNA LISA concerns not art but lowlife in modern London...

...follows an established pattern, but with constant photographic Papp calls Vienna: Lusthaus a tableau vivant, a label that and dramatic flair...

...with some of her sweet/sassy pertness...

...But he social thought, Cobra...

...The recall pieces in the last few years on Horton Foote, Elie "comic" rivalry-turned-friendship of Redford and Winger is Wiesel, Georges Simenon, and Cynthia Ozick...

...Ostensi- nude now, moves slowly across the stage...

...Redford's scenes as well: of many famous works of modern art...

...The muscular conbly an indication of his admiration for Martha Clarke, the Papp trol that made the horse sequence possible can be read is his letter seems to have a subtext, asking us not to be shocked, bare body as in a Leonardo anatomy study...

...I think of the tableau vivant as a static stage infernal "darkness visible" as they tour fire-lit slums on their picture, the performers posed and immobile like the Living desperate quest...

...He turns out to be an art dealer in June...

...This is tion...

...It is set in the Vienna of Schnitzler and Freud in which The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon, Hoskins represents elegance, romance, and decadence mingle, where Gemutsome small trace of decency in the urban forest of the night...

...In a later scene, the cause Joseph Papp slipped a "Dear Patrons" note into the same performer (no names are attached to specific sequences), Playbill as though he felt a need to put us at our ease...

...capabilities of the human body are stamped all over the work Beginning with Hoskins's release from prison, the film which she conceived and directed...

...I one must unfortunately endure its plot, which stinks...

...He lichkeit rubs elbows with anti-Semitism...

...Hence both Universal's "comedy-thriller" Legal Eagles and' Of the leads, Winger is adequate and tries to animate the plot the British import Mona Lisa...

...The bright lights of the opening, when seems not quite right for a Clarke piece, not even for The Hoskins is released from prison, give way to half-light when Garden of Earthly Delights which is based on the Hieronymus he starts driving Tyson around to search for her friend, then Bosch painting...

...But Ivan supposed to evoke the sparring teamwork of duos like Hepburn Reitman...

...At the opening, an they were stepping into her parlor, which is what the officer, trim in uniform and black boots, stands center stage inner lobby looks like...

...The denied visits to the daughter he loves) is touched by the cruel members of Clarke's company sometimes move with an alexploitation in what he sees...

...but it really takes finds perfect foils in the regal Tyson and the magnificently place in the not-so-subconscious fantasies of most people...

...she should The film, accordingly, involves an outwardly "adult" plot: have stayed in the ocean in...

...In another scene, a disturbed, surprised, which is an odd message to get from the comic one that turns ugly as it moves from sex to violence, one producer of Aunt Dan and Lemon...

...But immobility is hardly a term that license, "a nun in disguise, a sister of mercy" for trying to describes Clarke's work...

...They occasionally come full stop, "black tart," becomes "a lady" and then, with some poetic frozen for an instant...

...Most of the humor between the abetting box-office theft...

...and (with Redford Legal Eagles has received more than the usual share of having two damsels to choose from) of bedrooms, too...

...To avoid being swamped by the ads, doesn't look right - not sleek enough to inhabit the implied publicity, and box office bonanzas of such "sure-fire hits," atmosphere of the art world as conceived by Reitman...

...Every film since has been a Redford first prosecutes, then joins Winger in the defense of disaster...

...supporting actors, and they are underdeveloped...

...and thereafter is tiresome...

...Starkly directed by Neil Jordan, this film is only for the Garden of Earthly Delights (1984-85), a creation which has strong of stomach, not because of its violence but its raw vision played most recently at the International Theater Festival in of the seamy side of life...

...Out of Africa...

...form, dissolve, merge into one another and, although the Both sentimentality and exaggeration are avoided, how- viewer may carry away a portfolio of concrete pictures in his or ever, by the film's harsh realism in portraying child prostitu- her mind, the power of the work lies in its totality...

...Mona Lisa abides by film noir Baltimore...

...After a brisk canter, he stops and, like a LipVienna: Lusthaus, not because the Yeadon, which is a pleasure pizaner stallion, arches his leg, lets his foot hover tentatively, palace of sorts, much resembles Clarke's Lusthaus, but be- and then brings it gently to the ground...

...undergarments - white pantaloons and singlets - that were TOM O'BRIEN so useful to Toulouse-Lautrec...

...His film says nothing about men and women, nothand Tracy, but the best lines actually occur between Redford ing about law, nothing about art or the passions that surround and his daughter...

...Like Bogart in Prater...

...with the latest in movie lady lawyers...

...But his murder at midfilm fails to evoke keen suspense, only longing for some potent SUMMER FILMS resemble those time-release capsules in bad guy to take up the slack...

...11 July 1986: 405 The story involves an uncouth petty hood with a heart of gold goers are there either because they read the enthusiastic and (Bob Hoskins) and an elegant prostitute (Cathy Tyson), whom quite explicit reviews of Vienna, or else because, like Papp, he chauffeurs around to assignations...

...Reitman has worked himself up the Hollywood ladder in The blond bombshell himself is not so much bad as just not all typical contemporary fashion, moving from early slaughter there, cf...

...the old in mind...

...Hoskins (who is separated from his wife and Pictures that were so popular in England in the 1890s...

...Like the studios hold back more "adult" films to midsummer, and best comedy in the film, the best dramatic roles belong to some really Quixotic distributors even dare a foreign entry...

...The Lusthaus is a garden of earthly delights CLARKE'S 'LUSTHAUS' which needs no Bosch in the wings to remind the audience that all flesh is grass...

...Usually this with an axe to grind against all parties...

...principals involves pratfalls, not wit...

...In addition, Hoskins's perfect portrayal (which won Best particularly true of Vienna: Lusthaus...

...Clarke is not appearing as a performer in Vienna: conventions, yet with such conviction that it restores meaning Lusthaus, but her mind, her eye, and her understanding of the to the term "underworld...

...brutal Michael Caine as the taciturn cockney crime lord who is Unless an image calls for a ball gown or no clothes at all, the first their employer, then nemesis...

...There is no plot, but Stage there is a recognizable thematic development as the work moves toward the final images which, visually and verbally, evoke death...

...LOVE & DEATH IN OLD VIENNA The matter of Vienna: Lusthaus gains its strength from method...

...I was reminded of this hospitable and then begins to move in a circle, becoming the horse and woman when I went to see Martha Clarke's new theater work, rider at once...

...Hence Top Gun, Space Camp, The Manhattan Proj- anger...

...The best joke concerns Winger putting a dog on the witness The title is less from da Vinci than Nat King Cole's stand - but we never get to see this...

...The images are delicately suggestive or openly erotic, but the eroticism slides easily into the comic or the eccentric...

...ads for cold remedies: some burst on the scene im- None appears until too late, after a complicated, often mediately around Memorial Day...

...Mona Lisa is discomfort- women wear those discreetly evocative turn-of-the-century ing because it explores the existence of evil in frank terms...

...Acting award at Cannes this year) catches both the hood's The piece takes its name from the Pleasure Pavilion in the bumbling incompetence and genuine chivalry...

...Stamp is able to convey hauteur just by manipulating his ascending hairline...

...There is no scene to correlates inversely with their quality: May movies are ex- explain in depth-what-fury-drove him-to revenge, although the pected to be big money winners all summer long because, as a actor playing the role (I will observe conventions and maintain nephew of mine used to say, they are " not for mature audi- the foolish secret) certainly has it in him to project that kind of ences...

...Somebody, perhaps, should be indicted for aiding and rary, naturally he is divorced...

...If Reitman's efforts at comedy fail, his attempt at a "thriller" also falters...

...of some daughter in the film (Jennie Dundas), makes the appropriate large and picturesque New York art galleries...

...Each of these periodic "returns" of pictures like Cannibal Girls through "gross-outs" like Na- Redford to the screen is billed as the second coming of Rhett tional Lampoon's Animal l4ouse, to Saturday-Night-Live-type Butler, but one wonders if his legend matches his performslapstick in Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters...

...of courtrooms comment that she "looks guilty...

...the men are usually dressed as officers or wear formal late-Victorian mufti...

...She then diverts him to they are old Clarke admirers who have followed her career search for one of her very young colleagues still walking the from her years with the Pilobolus Dance Theater to The streets...

...Chances are your answer will involve a pairing Legal Eagles is supposed to mark Reitman's emancipation - with Paul Newman or Dustin Hoffman, who got him to play up from late-spring teen-film slavery to midsummer release for off their power and energy...

...Indeed, he probably has more emotional power, and ect, Short Circuit, or Sylvester Stallone's latest contribution to more love of fine art, than all the leads combined...

...some pop their bubbles confusing set of plot twists...

...The concept is worthy Screen of Reitman's earlier films, and maybe shows where his true loyalties lie...