Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point Casca and the rest of the conspirators execute their dagger thrusts and other bodily movements in ultra slow-motion, turning the scene into a graceful choreographed ritual. The director perhaps got the idea from the slow-motion violence in such recent movies as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Bunch Cassidy and the Sundance...
...High Country through The Ballad of Cable Hogue all seem to be infused with a kind of sunset light. They concern men living stubbornly in the middle of change, hanging on, scarcely surviving. "We got to look beyond our guns," one of the outlaws says in The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah's greatest film. Everyone agrees, but no man among them can adapt, so they die by the code of an earlier time rather than live...
Still, there are some excellent things in Hannie Cuulder. Hurt Kennedy's direction is robust, the scene about learning to shoot a pistol is superb, and the homicidal Three Stooges - Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin (both of The Wild Bunch) and Jack Elam - are the best bad guys around...
...findings. Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of the newly formed African National Council, called the report a "God-given chance" for Rhodesia's blacks and whites "to reason together and try to solve their problems." Smith was not having any of that kind of reasoning. "They are a bunch of unscrupulous politicians," he said of the council leaders, "who have hoodwinked the poor African." In the absence of a settlement, the British government will maintain its diplomatic and economic boycott of Rhodesia. "The status quo," said Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home resignedly, "will remain...
...last funny line in a movie that still has a long time to run. Fritz harangues the crows and implausibly starts a street riot; he goes on the lam again, cross-country, and becomes involved with a vaguely realized bunch of bikers and Mansonites with Weatherman reflexes who take him to blow up a power station-in the course of which Fritz is blown up himself...