Word: blume
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, the first film to deal with these issues. A number of American movies have re-evaluated the roles of men and women throughout the decade. The cycle began when Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge and Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love first used comedy to expose the hypocrisies of the bright but sexist American male. After the women's movement took hold, films like Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman went further by trying to spread a new, liberated feminine ideal to a mass audience...
...Blume in love. Central Square, daily at 5:30 and 9:30 p.m. With Drama of Jealousy at 7:35 p.m. Weekend matinee...
There is enough honesty of a similar quality throughout the picture to keep any not too critical adult going through any matinee. Combine that with the pleasant lyricism of its skating scenes and you have the movie equivalent of a Judy Blume novel for teenagers: something you need not be ashamed to offer a kid and that you may find yourself more interested in than you would have suspected as you glance over her shoulder. - Richard Schickel
Paul Mazursky's best movies - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love and now An Unmarried Woman - are bulletins from a combat zone. The battlefield is affluent urban America; the war is the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Mazursky describes the skirmishes in all their neurotic glory, tots up the emotion al casualties and tries to identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report...
...projects (White Lightning, Sam Whiskey, W. W. and the Dixie Dance Kings, to name a few), and he is now looking for ambitious ideas and first-rate scripts. He does not like seeing them end up in the hands of others. Two pictures that he "would have killed for," Blume in Love and A Touch of Class, went to George Segal. Reynolds wants to use his box-office power to fight back. Says he: "I'm not sorry I'm bankable. It means I can get what I want. Now I can say, 'I want Glenda Jackson...