Features They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Plot
A generational story about families and the special place where they live and share in love, loss, laughter and life. Based on the comic book „Here” by Richard McGuire. It was first published as a strip in the comic book magazine „Raw” in 1989 and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014. The story was based on the 1960s American television series „Here” and was filmed on Interstate 80 in PA, which wasn’t even built yet. [from the trailer] Richard: You know, if you wanted to, you could spend the rest of the night here.Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here.
Concerto for Clarinet, Pts
1 and 2Written by Artie ShawPerformed by Artie Shaw and His OrchestraCourtesy of RCA RecordsBy arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment. The most fascinating part of this film for me was the clever use of technology to jump back and forth in time – but not space – to show what happened at an unremarkable location in the area occupied by New England from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. Transitions are often accomplished by adding picture-in-picture windows over the one central video and then jumping to a different time in some of the smaller windows before the entire screen changes to that era as well. I admit that this gimmick has become dated over time, but I still found it clever at least at times. However, there were problems for me that some of the previous fourteen reviewers have already pointed out.
Why should we care about one of Ben Franklin’s sons?
The main story – that of the Young family over their three generations is not particularly interesting. But the other, smaller stories woven into and out of it are actually of no interest at all. Or the young Native American/Indian woman and her young lover? Or even the man who invents the Lazy Boy recliner? Nothing is done to tie these stories into the main story, and they are uninteresting on their own.
Nothing really ties these various stories together
That was especially true of the brief time we spent with a young African-American couple living in the house for an indeterminate amount of time in our modern era. (They have COVID masks.) Actually, what we see from them is that the woman gets along well with her Latina housekeeper. And that at one point the father gives his son what we white people are told is „the talk,” he says, in which the father tells the son how to behave when stopped by a white cop so he doesn’t get killed by the cop. That’s pretty much a cliche, and none of my black friends have ever had that kind of conversation with their parents. Since they aren’t interesting on their own and don’t reinforce the main theme, that’s a problem.
I wasn’t bored
I was even able to watch this movie again on TV, where I could pause it for a break every now and then. But once in the theater, while not boring, it was enough for me. Take a look back at some of our favorite posters from 2024, from Alien: Romulus to Road House.
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