Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London. In 1968 he staged an exhibition of tableaux vivants called "The Americans." He imported an Alabama dirt farmer, a California fisherman, a stockbroker and an Oklahoma oil driller to stand around and represent themselves, but his pièce de résistance was a New York cab driver complete with yellow cab and nonstop monologue for anyone who ventured to enter it. Says Graham: "It seemed an interesting thing...
Several taxi cab drivers testified against the city's proposal, offered by Robert P. Moncreiff, of the Cambridge Bicentennial Corporation...
...directed by K. Stekly (who is well in his 70s and the only director who agreed to do the job). The film is called The Enemy at the Wheel and is supposed to be an allegory on the 1968 events. The story goes something like this: a gang of cab drivers (former intellectuals and criminals) arrange the firing of a manager and the foreman of a garage, both devoted communists. The foreman's wife is seduced by her former lover, recently returned from emigration, who intends to take her with him to the capitalists. But, thanks to Providence, the airport...
...people and feelings. These qualities are impossible to transport to a new reality. In other words, it is impossible to make "Czech" movies in America. Ivan Passer's recent Law and Disorder just doesn't work when it tries to be a "Czech film" about ordinary Brooklyn shopkeepers and cab drivers, because Passer is not "equipped" by his experience to do this kind of film. This problem is not confined to Czech directors. Antonioni's Zabriskie Point is a failure in the sense that it sees America through European eyes, picking out and reproducing certain superficial stereotypes. Alain Resnais spent...
...stood in long chow lines with the others, complained about the cold nights, and asked visiting reporters for warm underwear. He spoke vaguely of seeking an American sponsor to set him up as a farmer "in Arkansas or San Antonio," or of finding a new life as a cab driver. "For us," he said, "the only hope is that we shall return. When Hitler occupied Europe, people like President de Gaulle hoped that he could come back-and he was back." Ky seemed to be offering himself as a rallying point for his countrymen, but said that...