Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by CLIFF ROBERTSON Screenplay by CLIFF ROBERTSON, GARY CARTWRIGHT and EDWIN SHRAKE
...course, this thing Los Angeles has with its cars, this secret life, is coming to an end. You can go up in the mountains of Griffith Park in the center of L.A. any warm evening now, park on a cliff edge and see the city dying. The smog has a topography all its own these days, massive chocolate mountains of it below you to the east, a permanent black tumor over Hollywood and the downtown area seeping in channels through the passes out into the Valley and on into the Mojave Desert; to the west, over West L.A., Inglewood...
...astronomers point out that another supernova, the one that created the familiar Crab Nebula and its pulsar, was witnessed by the Chinese in A.D. 1054 and was well documented in their records. The same event was seen in North America and recorded at the same time in cave and cliff drawings found in northern Arizona...
Ethology-as any schoolboy will tell you with suitable grunts and scratchings-embraces the study of the beast in man. It is the science of atavisms. Desmond Morris is the former London zookeeper who, recognizing this fat ruminant in the wild, turned hunter. He stampeded his quarry over the cliff in The Naked...
This is where that relentless pursuit has finally led: straight over the cliff and into a sea where dream and reality merge with haunting fluidity. The most fantastic appearances are lent an ceric reality by celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...