and then they bury him in the garden but listen carefully in this scene to the
conclusions they draw from their experience. For them it's simple invite
folks over for dinner and if they don't agree with their politics give them the
wine in the blue carafe which is poison and will quickly kill them. Charles
Journey plays a minister who hates gays. Of course AIDS is not a sin it's a
terrible disease. Not quite. Homosexuality is the terrible disease and AIDS is the
cure. And Jason Alexander is to say the least not ecologically minded. Come on
anti-earth come for Earthling. It's kind of hard to care about the greenhouse effect
you don't have a house. Finally they invite a famous right-wing TV commentator
to dinner played by Ron Perlman he seems to be modeled on Rush Limbaugh. Life gets
more and more complicated every day.
Well, the weather's breaking and I just wanted to drink a toast to all you guys.
The Last Supper is far from being a perfect film the plot formula is too
inflexible it's too predictable except maybe right at the end but it's a
provocative film that will inspire a lot of discussions after the movie is over
and at a time when most American movies are afraid to go anywhere near politics
that's a good thing. I thought it was a good thing too and I tell you I'll give
you an example that kind of thought that I had while I was watching this and it's
one I've had before which is the old debate among the left wing which is you
know the right wing always seems so much more organized yeah and you know if we
could only get together and you know maybe be as courageous in our opinions
you know why do we have to you know overthink ourselves why can't we just
act now whatever talks about a namby-pamby right winger yeah yeah so
that kind of discussion which is right at the top of this thing and carried all
the way through in a humorous fashion with the good visuals of the backyard
dialing up to me was enough to recommend the picture. You know the one thing that
early in the film they say if we you know could have killed Hitler in 1921
actually 1909 before he done anything before he done anything yes wonderful
logic the only problem is they never stopped to ask themselves in this film
how do you know then that he was going to be Hitler okay coming up next one of
the most beautiful musicals ever filmed and finally after more than 30 years you
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that I was to see a new print of Jacques Demy's the umbrellas of Cherbourg that I
wasn't all that excited I like the film a lot but a restored new print so what
well here's what it's a print we never got to see because the film's distributor
didn't have enough confidence in the picture and rushed it out to theaters in
a much cheaper form now after 32 years we can at last see the umbrellas of
Cherbourg in all of its three strip technicolor like glory and it is
magnificent the dialogue in this film you'll recall is mostly sung and the
heroine played by a luminescent 21 year old Catherine Deneuve works in an
umbrella shop her boyfriend played by Nina Castelnauvo works in a gas station
and their courting is Très Gentile
into their lives comes a third party a wealthy young diamond dealer played by
Marc-Michel who is drawn to Deneuve Deneuve's mother thinks he's a much
better prospective husband than the other boyfriend
as you follow the love story pay attention to the look of the film to the
backgrounds even here as the lovers commiserate over his draft notice
the umbrellas of Cherbourg is so terrific it made me yearn for the return of the
live-action movie musical especially when I saw this wildly romantic scene at
the railway station a glorious farewell scene
I think Hollywood is making a mistake leaving the musical to the animated form
but while you wait for the next musical to appear
Pavita isn't due for a year please consider the reissue of Jacques de Mise the
umbrellas of Cherbourg mature and also colorful filmmaking and the idea of
singing that dialogue to each other right when it started weren't you know
excited right loved the whole film and I don't think that I really thought about
it the first time I saw it the way I thought about it this time because it
has such a bittersweet ending that is about human nature and about the way
things are it doesn't just have a path happy ending like a lot of musicals do
it's a movie that despite the fact that it's a color musical and beautiful and
Catherine de Nouve is gorgeous it's a serious film and how about the audacity
of putting it in the gas station I mean you know you would think that that's so
dirty unattractive I mean this is really a mature movie musical playing in
revival theaters around the country it will be on video after a while look for
it I'd see it in the movie this one to see in a theater in a movie theater but
of course if you don't have one in your town playing it build one build one
okay when we come back the amazing story of a man whose musical brainchild
changed the sound of the movie it's that was good you're lost no this is
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time for our video pick of the week and my pick this week is there a man an
electronic Odyssey this is an unusual and enchanting 1995 documentary the film
tells the story of a musical invention which combined vacuum tubes and early
electronics to create what was essentially the first synthesizer the
inventors name was Leon Thurman here he is in 1928 archival footage and the film
also visits with Clara Rockmore who met Thurman when she was a teenager and
became the leading performer of the strange instrument which in the 1930s
became so popular he was used by symphony orchestras
Thurman himself disappeared mysteriously at the dawn of World War
Two and his instrument fell out of sight but those who heard it never forgot it
and the documentary finds the eerie sound of the Thurman in Hollywood
science-fiction films and also in a lot of pop music including good vibrations
by the Beach Boys Thurman is our video pick of the week now let's take another
look at the movies we reviewed this week we split on primal fear I thought it was
a superior thriller one of Richard Gere's best performances but Jean thought
only newcomer Edward Norton was worth watching two thumbs down for a thin line
between love and hate which tells an interesting story but surrounded with
too much unnecessary material two more thumbs down for faithful the talkie
melodrama although we did like the energy in the exchanges between Cher and
Chas Palminteri two thumbs up for the quirky movie the last supper which takes
extremism to fatal extremes and two big thumbs up for Jacques Demy's 1964
musical classic the umbrellas of Sherbrooke now restored in a beautifully
enriched color print it is wonderful yeah and I again I hope the message goes
out that you know what I really like to do is have Hollywood executives who can
actually make decisions to make a live-action movie musical see this
picture it may inspire them I was talking to Steven Spielberg the other day he
said the only thing he hasn't done that he wants to do is make a music I really
root for him to do that okay that's it for this week next we'll be back with
reviews of more new movies including getting away with murder starring Dan
Ackroyd is a professor who suspects neighbor Jack Lemmon of war crimes and
also Franco Zeffirelli's version of Jane Eyre starring William Hurt that's next
week and until then the balcony is closed