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tiousness and illogic are the demons here. Franco Zeffirelli can usually make flamboyance and a sort of artsy pretentiousness work to his advantage, but not with "Otello." Pay no attention to the sonorous radio ads; our Martin Bernheimer was on target with his litany of the film's failings. The regret here is that with the lure of Placido Domingo, this could have been a chance hind it, it may well be commercially successful, but it tarnishes and compromises the aesthetic it tries to promote. It does bring us around again to film festivals, where "Otello" and "Where the River Runs Black" were launched. It's the risk-taking films from whatever source, culled for us at a festival, that re-hone our standards of appreciation and restore our optimism.

to widen the movie -going audience's experience of opera, the way that Sir Laurence Olivier broadened Americans' grasp of Shakespeare with "Henry with "Hamlet," and even with his own "Othello," which was less a film than a filmed record of a theatrical performance. But "Otello" is neither good film making nor good opera; with the push of the Cannon company be The reviews. The success. The fun. The memories.

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