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...Paris, no one makes love in the evening any more; everyone is too tired." So sighs a character in Francoise Sagan's latest novel, La Chamade, and so to a breathless world was revealed the latest innovation in French amatory technique. In the days of Maupassant, mustaches and mistresses, the affluent Frenchman could not do without his cinq a sept-the 5-to-7 p.m. evening liaison with his paramour. Then he dashed home for a 7:30 dinner with his wife. All of that, as La Sagan sadly reports, has changed...
What is best about The Endless Summer can be summed up by Brown's breathless statement after the boys find their perfect wave at some uninhabited spot on the Indian Ocean. "Just think," Brown muses. "Think of the thousands of waves that have gone to waste here...
Masculine Feminine. Here's that man again. Jean-Luc Godard is his name, and for the past seven years he has been spewing out a veritable Seine of cinema. Though mercifully divided into 80-minute stretches and released as eleven separate features (among them Breathless, My Life To Live, Alphaville) Godard's work is intended as a single film. It is his Comedie Humaine, an intricate, enormous, tricky-trashy yet heart-stabbingly poetic attempt to cinemulate Balzac's masterpiece...
...Russians were almost breathless in their shock at the events in China...
...black sand beaches to Hawaii's perilous "Pipeline"-the Mount Everest of surf-dom-chills and spills crowd onto the screen. Some are caught by a waterproofed camera that behaves like a frolicsome seal, nuzzling close enough to eye a surfer's footwork, or leaving the viewer breathless and upended under a cascade of angry white water...