Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...versions of The Guide exist, one in English with breathless transgressions intact, another in Hindi with all love play omitted to conform to India's strict censorship laws. Such scruples seem wasted on a movie that displays few virtues in any language...
Contempt is doodling disguised as art. French Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, My Life to Live) has built a reputation as an improviser who makes up masterpieces as he goes along. In this inflated drama of marital disintegration, based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, spontaneity looks more like slackness. Contempt subjects Godard's staunchest admirers to a loyalty test that precious few will pass...
Through intensive publicity and clever advertising ("It leaves you breathless"), Heublein succeeded with Smirnoff far beyond its hopes. Vodka somehow appealed to youth, seemed lighter and thus less fattening (it isn't), and was so versatile that it could be mixed in anything from a Bloody Mary to a Russian Virgin (vodka with a whisper of Cointreau). It has been the fastest-growing liquor in the U.S. for the past five years and now accounts for 70% of Heublein's total sales; Smirnoff has also become the fourth biggest seller among all liquor brands...
...Abysses is drawn from a celebrated French murder case of 1933, which also inspired Jean Genet's drama The Maids. Selected by Andre Malraux as France's entry in the 1963 Cannes film festival, it arrives in the U.S. trailing breathless encomiums from Jean-Paul Sartre ("Cinema has given us its foremost tragedy"), and Simone de Beauvoir ("One of the greatest films I have ever seen"). Since such illustrious, finely honed sensibilities are not easily ignored, the ordinary moviegoer probably ought to read what has been written about the movie instead of actually sitting through it. Only cultists...
...Woman Is a Woman is an unabashed display of cinematic bravura by French Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose first big success was Breathless. Breaking completely with the downbeat, darkly evocative themes that made his reputation international, Godard has brought off a flashy little showpiece so full of daring artifice and visual horseplay that it cannot fail to divide viewers into two camps: those who find its excesses unforgivable v. those who find its successes unbeatable...