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...Hornos explicitly disavows the role of presenting the whole Truth about the revolutionary situation of Argintina. The voice of Solanas comes on in Part II over sections of black leader to explain the intentions of the filmmakers, to remind us that this experience is their communication via celluloid, a projector, and a screen rather than some larger-than-life revelation, and finally that it is a form left open and fragmented-to be finished by the audience with their own debate and acts. He calls the film a collection of "Notes and Testimony on Violence and Liberation"; in other words...
Diana Rigg as Heloise and Keith Michell as Abelard are lovers not so much star-crossed as celluloid-spliced. A playgoer might even feel that he was watching an ad trailer from the film-to-be. Thrill to A & H in a nude scene played in one-watt lighting. Chill as A is symbolically castrated by some sinister leprechauns left over from a ballet of yesteryear. Hiss the uncle. Chortle with a tipsy canon (Ronald Radd) and a tipsier abbess (Jacqueline Brookes). So much for medieval color. In dialogue. Playwright Millar has spared his audience the one line that...
...people have put a lot of work into killing the novel-Leon Uris and Fletcher Knebel and Irving Wallace and all those names which make you want to be sick. Tons of paper have been wasted on bringing their effluents before the public, and tons of celluloid on converting them to major motion pictures. Although each of these authors has sold millions of books, none of them will be remembered a decade from now, because they all share one common outstanding quality-forgetability...
WHEN the Crimson Executive Board got together in 1903, you can bet they observed strict decorum. President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 (top row, third from left) made sure his boys didn't bring women along. He kept the dress standard high, too: black tie, celluloid collar, and gold Crimson medal were de rigeur...
Things are falling apart for him, and David Holzman's Diary is his way of pinning the humdrum onto celluloid in the hopes of discovering meanings...