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...Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; and celebrated the appeal of pop American moviemaking, where "trash" (a favorite term of praise) often gave more pleasure...
...been crossover. In 1958 Dean Martin scored a hit with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based on the 18th century French ballad Plaisir d'amour. Such music became world music only when darker-skinned folks sang...
...Jean-Luc Godard is a mere 70, but he has been playing the role of the crotchety hermit-sage for decades. His Elogie de l'amour (In Praise of Love) is in two parts - the first, in black-and-white, a notebook of visual and verbal provocations. ("The question isn't whether man will survive but whether he deserves to.") The second part, shot digitally in carnival colors, concerns an old couple whose distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven...
...Gloria" (Laura Branigan) from the Italian song by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" (Elvis Presley) from the 18th century French ballad "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean-Pierre Claris "It's Now or Never" (Elvis Presley) from the 19th century Italian song "O Sole Mio" by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo Di Capua "Jealousy" (Frankie Laine) from the "gypsy tango" by the Danish composer Jacob Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from...
...still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshima mon amour and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes are a kind of atomic glaze - an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings...