Word: charm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketchy of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays the complex voluptuary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Mallee may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque...
...real Jeremiah Johnson," Screenwriter Edward Anhlat has explained, "killed 247 Crow Indians and then ate their livers, and that's not nice." The film that was extracted, with considerable timidity and falsification, from the Johnson saga is exactly that-nice. Its niceness is both part of its charm and its undoing...
...good a year for film as any other. There was no heightened seriousness, no now charm to make very many new films worth seeing I did enjoy myself more often than the year before and on occasion even learned a bit. But you can't generalize solely on this year's output. All that really can interest us in our annual found ups--until there are major changes to our attitudes towards culture, and our cultural industries-- are the individual achievements of the world's best filmmakers...
...idea of Kissinger as Jimmy Stewart has a certain ridiculous charm, although the notion is probably closer to Nixon's image of himself as expressed in Six Crises a decade ago. In any case, the President's men were not amused...
...DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE. Luis Buñuel's intricate and elegant dissection of middle-class amorality, shrewd and very funny...