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THE SCREEN

Roeg. Nicholas Roeg's recent Don't Look Now was so stunning that his first two films, now showing at the Welles, deserve a second look. In Walkabout, a father sets his car and himself aflame in the Aussie outback as his terrified family looks on, among other things. Performance has Mick Jagger masquerading as a glittery rock star.

Lady from Shanghai (1947), by Orson Welles, starring Orson Welles, Everett Sloane and Rita Hayworth, is Orson Welles's most intriguing film. Citizen Kane, of course, is more innovative, and Lady from Shanghai is often hokey. But the trial scene, where coughs are treated as major events, or the hall of mirrors scene (when seen on a big screen) are so amazing that they carry the movie.

Sunset Boulevard (1951), is one of the best films about Hollywood, and also one of Billy Wilder's best films. Set in an incredible Hollywood mansion, it captures the spirit of early-50s-just-outside-the-mainstream-of-Hollywood cynicism.

Cagney is coming back. He's going to be on TV soon, after a long period of seclusion. The Public Enemy was one of two films that burst out in 1931 to start a tradition of gangster films. Cagney (with his grapefruit) tries to be tough. But the film shows his family, too, and the final scene when he returns home is always moving, no matter how many times you've seen the movie.

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