Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience of looking at Arbus's photography is so vital because the subject matter and style are thoroughly intertwined. They evolve into a vivid documentary recreation of the artist's personal encounters with reality. Breaking out of the stifling cocoon of a wealthy family, and reacting against the highly stylized fashion photography of her job, Diane Arbus made her foray into the freak world to establish a much needed contact with a hard core reality. She was motivated by this psychological drive and not by any perverse delight in the sensationalism of the subject matter. Overcoming ingrained social inhibitions, Arbus...
...Jamaican record industry is dominated by two or three large producers, who force poor performers lacking capital to accept whatever the producers will pay--usually around $20 a tune. The producers control what the radio stations play, and at the same time try to make sure that no one artist becomes wealthy or well known enough to challenge their position. When Ivan attempts to push his own record, working through a DJ he knows, he is quickly rebuffed. Friendship cannot beat the hustle...
...this point that the movie begins to weaken. As Ivan rises to brief status as renegade folk-hero, the film loses its credibility. Ivan is more a rip off artist than a Robin Hood, an improbable hero...
...inured him to it. Over-fond of the past, he brings confused eyes to the present, and stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy bluejeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is just a modern version of Aunt Augusta, but stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible...
...always being consulted on such questions as "How do you feel about love?" "Have you ever made love without love?" - and is in turn forever dispensing bits of Mary Worth wisdom like "We're all caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around a lot of picturesque locations - Yucatan, in this case. The antique splendors of Chichen Itza make the passions of Interval seem petty indeed, but so would a brisk round...