Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, this year's screenings-which concluded last week after a marathon 16 days-introduced a worthy film or two, surveyed what is currently interesting or chic on the Continent, and provided a temporary home for the outcasts. Best received were Truffaut's Day for Night (TIME, Oct. 15) and an American movie, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. The home team, indeed, was well represented this year by Mean Streets, Terrence Malick's Badlands (both to be reviewed separately when they are generally released) and James Frawley's Kid Blue, a funny, anarchic western released...
...Chic Anarchy. Finally Sack trots out Calley again, this time interviewed before his trial while he was playing tourist in New York. Dressed in a brown tweed suit with a credit card in his wallet, Calley glues himself to a telescope atop the Empire State Building and looks for sunbathing girls. Downstairs it's a four-Bloody Mary lunch and reminiscences about Asian whores. "Normal, normal," says Sack, "like sugar in water, he had been dropped in a city street scene but he didn't displace anything." It is a little late in the century, though...
...accept uncertainty, to trust oneself and to walk quietly out on the great dictator, the incontestable expert, to undo every organization and let every organism turn to the rhythms within." For a man who apparently operates very well within the man-eating machine, this is anarchy at its most chic. ∙R.Z. Sheppard
Maude's first antagonist was Archie Bunker, when she stormed onto All in the Family two seasons ago as a visiting cousin. Since spinning off on her own last year, Maude has stirred things up with shows on the legalization of marijuana and the sham of radical chic, as well as a two-part episode on abortion that roused a particularly shrill outcry when it was rerun over the summer (TIME...
...lack of narrative drive, both overall and within the individual sequences of his films. Playtime finds him trying to keep an appointment in an automated office building, wandering through an exhibit of new industrial products, attending the opening night of a new restaurant which is trying to maintain a chic air while construction workers are still trying to finish the place...