Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For example: Hopper boasts that he can make "oh, six . . . eight . . . eighteen" girls in one night. The following scene shows the girls-burlesque queens, whores, coed groupies-entering Hopper's Taos. New Mexico ranch. kindly imported by Schiller and Carson. The reaction of one of Hopper's steady women is...
THE American bathroom, ever a target for European wits and soreheads, has a host of enthusiasts as well; none is more outspoken than Critic Edmund Wilson, who once said: "I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions ... in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have...
There you have an approximation of a newly imported British comedy, The Philanthropist. Playwright Christopher Hampton, 24, is witty, clever, debonair; he uses the English language with sly gusto and rare affection. He has given an impressive display of that affection in his fluently idiomatic adaptations of A Doll'...
But, this time around, Paris is again a jail: the movie opens with Antoine in a courtyard. We see him attempting through some chemical process to turn white carnations into blue, green and violet flowers- but there is little sunlight and only temporary success. When Antoine introduces electricity into his...
Truffaut, however much we may love him, demonstrates the impossibility of our affection once and for all in his new film. He dashes not only the small hopes left to us by the other Doinel pictures, but also those allowed by Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player and Mississippi...