Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else was satisfied, frequently drove some of the crew members up the wall with frustration over her demands for perfection. Between takes, she was the old Julie, cutting an incongruous figure in her postulant's costume and behaving like an old busker: hammering out a furious Hawaiian War Chant, whistling through her teeth, clacking out a frenzied flamenco, tossing off bawdy songs, warbling Indian Love Call, and hitting a clinker at just the right moment...
...allegedly obscene film is the work of a famous author, does his repu tation make the work "socially impor tant" and, therefore, not obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist's literary fame "does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself...
...erotic scenes recur with increasing intensity and without direction toward any well-defined, wholesome idea." As of now in California, declared the court, Chant d'Amour is "nothing more than hard-core pornography, and should be banned...
...cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
...Catholicism knows this, and it presents a power structure that makes it not only difficult to question the divine nature of the Church but dangerous as well. As a Protestant, I have often wanted this assurance. But each effort to converse with a priest has ended with the pious chant: "You lack faith...