Cinema: Winding Down

THE WILD PARTY

Directed by JAMES IVORY

Screenplay by WALTER MARKS

At several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded.

The sound of two hands clapping will cease immediately thereafter. The Wild Party...

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