Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, there are many happy accidents and not a few disasters. The movie is at its Rabelaisian best when it sticks to salacity, at its worst when it attempts sagacity by commenting on life's meaninglessness. In the West the age of the Theater and the Cinema of the Absurd has rendered such Dada as dead as the dodo. But in countries with a history of repressive censorship, nonsense undoubtedly serves a therapeutic purpose...
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...1960s, several young artists -most notably Andy Warhol and California's Bruce Conner - have abandoned the paint tube for the film can, leading their fans to hail the underground cinema as the birth of "a new art form." Rebirth would be more like it. The first artists to experiment with film were the Dadaists and surrealists in the 1920s, including Duchamp and Man Ray. The most inventive of the lot was a film maker who, as an artist, is all but unknown...
There is a measure of truth on both sides. Godard may be the most inventive cinema technician since Orson Welles-as well as the most infuriating. And for the same reason: to him, whatever rules exist are made to be broken...