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...chorus of groans in a dozen tongues. What are these movies? Who ever heard of these directors? Who chooses these things, anyway? Qu'est-ce qui se passe? On Oscar night next Monday, five anonymous films will be filling slots that might have been reserved for Fellini or Bergman, for A Sunday in the Country or A Love in Germany. When TV viewers hear "And the winner is . . ." they may well ask, "Who cares...
...Glass Darkly, 8 1/2) and sophisticated diversion (Seven Samurai, Z, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Day for Night). The Academy might err on the side of aesthetic conservatism; trailblazers such as Godard, Antonioni and Fassbinder were never so much as finalists for the prize, and directors like Bergman and Truffaut were cited years after their films had won critical acceptance. But in general the foreign Oscar was a distinguished overseas cousin to the Best Picture award...
...raging egomaniac but the quiet craftsman who prides himself on his productivity. "I don't want to get into that commercial film cycle that says that every time a film comes out it has to be hailed as an event," he says. "All the foreign filmmakers I loved, including Bergman, just turned out their pictures." He received an Oscar nomination for directing last year's Broadway Danny Rose ("At first I thought it was a typo"), but he won't be waiting on tiptoe for March 25. "I have the best situation I could have," he maintains. "I make whatever...
Some of the newer workout tapes seem interested less in fitness than in showing off their star's physical endowments. Sandahl Bergman's Body, billed as a "video workout combining fitness with the art of dance," is long on arty camera angles and short on guidance. And in the Solid Gold 5 Day Workout, dancers cavort in a series of seemingly random maneuvers that are nearly impossible to follow...
Hughes must refer to this as his "Bergman film": lots of deep talk and ripping off of psychic scabs. But this film maker is, spookily, inside kids. He knows how the ordinary teenagers, the ones who don't get movies made about them, think and feel: why the nerd would carry a fake ID ("So I can vote"), and why the deb would finally be nice to the strange girl (" 'Cause you're letting me"). He has learned their dialect and decoded it for sympathetic adults. With a minimum of genre pandering--only one Footloose dance imitation , --and with...