Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nicely played by Rock Hudson) who relates to students in a decidedly intimate fashion. The film does not completely work, either as thriller or farce, mostly because Vadim insists on treating his actresses like so many rhinestones in the buff, but there are good supporting performances by John David Carson as Hudson's protege and Telly Savalas as a grimly ironic cop, some agile plot twists, and an abundance of savage little insights into affluent California adolescents. Pretty Maids All in a Row ought to have been a lot better, but Vadim's limited success at least suggests...
...them adults) were soon blanketed by more than two feet of snow that fell on the site near Rocky Mountain National Park. While manfully debating the great issues that a preconference poll showed are most troubling youth, the delegates had to borrow Army parkas from nearby Fort Carson and improvise boots from chartreuse plastic grocery bags...
...example: Hopper boasts that he can make "oh, six . . . eight . . . eighteen" girls in one night. The following scene shows the girls-burlesque queens, whores, coed groupies-entering Hopper's Taos. New Mexico ranch. kindly imported by Schiller and Carson. The reaction of one of Hopper's steady women is shock and jealousy-why are they here? why is the camera on them and not me? When Hopper joins the group, he is nonplussed. (Perhaps his dream has been greater than his reality.) He plays games with the girls. out of fear, amusement and affection; his narration tells us that...
...interesting is Hopper's relationship to his work. We see him watching a sequence of his new film. The Last Movie: within the sequence, cameras film peasants who are mock-filming Hopper (portraying a stunt-man) with wooden mock-ups of camera and boom mike, while Hopper remarks to Carson on the soundtrack that he doesn't mind if The Last Movie bombs and kills him for Hollywood. "That wouldn't bother me . . . then I'd be just like Orson Welles." Hopper seems a victim of his own method of production: a man whose love for the camera allows...
...rider, whose crazing shock-treatment morality has outlived its initial impetus, and for the scenes which point to the possibility of a Pirandellian cinema. From his work here (Schiller credits him with organizing the individual scenes) and in David Holzman's Diary (in which he starred and improvised), Kit Carson seems to be heading towards a purified art, reordering basic human inter-actions with society and environment. The attitudes the film's subject expresses and the values it places on surrounding materials would determine the form the film takes. It is what Bergman has accomplished in the fiction film (particularly...