Word: anticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FANTOME DE LA LIBERTE, by Luis Bufiuel is an antic series of absurdist parlor tricks. All the surreal illusions are linked rather casually by the theme of freedom, by the lunatic effects caused by man's repressive passion for order...
...musical's promise was that it could conjure up the madcap mayhem of the Keystone Kops, the antic nostalgic appeal of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties, and Mabel Normand, his mistress and the star of his two-reelers. Despite formidable talents working with will and wile, the promise is not kept...
...Altman's surest talents is the creation of a whole world, slightly antic and off-center, so that his movies (like McCabe and Mrs. Miller or Thieves Like Us) have a look of surprise, of the familiar transposed in some evasive but still palpable way. Once again he enjoys the collaboration of his excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed...
...records, but "after a while that got boring." He followed with a six-month spin as a disc jockey, spent two years as host of a daytime TV comedy show and wrote songs for films like Georgy Girl and Shalako. He also played a variety of antic characters in 13 films in the Carry On ... series, and there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will take the fall best. Otherwise you smash yourself badly." In fact...
...couple dozen rabbits stashed in the trunk. "What am I going to do with all these rabbits?" he bellows, opening up the trunk and blasting away at them with his shotgun, which he also commences to turn on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. This movie adeptly creates the sort of antic cartoon world where crooks case the getaway route in ice-cream carts, disarm a security guard by dressing in drag, and break into a bank vault by the simple expedient of blasting it with an enormous antitank...