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...billboards go, it's a real stopper-a huge closeup photo of a pimply faced, wild-haired hippie, mounted on a ghastly yellow background and bearing the message, in red and black letters: BEAUTIFY AMERICA, GET A HAIRCUT. The poster has lately appeared on roadsides across the nation, generating no end of speculation about who or what is behind the campaign...
...instance, to cut from the back of an actress' head to the back of the same head. Godard did it 18 times in Breathless. While making A Woman Is a Woman, he recalled a Chaplin dictum that comedy is life in long shot and tragedy life in closeup. So A Woman became a comedy in closeup. Cameras are supposed to record, not call attention to themselves. In My Life to Live, he had his camera swinging back and forth like a pendulum during one key sequence...
Documentary in style, Poor Cow opens with a closeup of Joy (Carol White) in pain. She writhes and thrashes, panting. A nurse puts an anesthetic mask over her face, and the camera moves down her body as the doctor's hands deliver the child and start it breathing. Though her husband Tom (John Bindon) is a crude, bullying, small-time criminal, Joy manages a pathetic simulation of middle-class domesticity-living in a development house, airing baby Jonny in a swanky pram, serving hostessy sandwiches to Tom's accomplices while they are plotting a caper...
...conducted a tour of the concrete block: "There we take the men who service the cars and turn them into fanatics. And in this area, we are building a super troop of car attendants." The 60-second commercial, viewed during the Dean Martin show on NBC, ended with a closeup of Hertz's "efficiency expert," who asked: "And why, why are we doing all this?" In an apparent satire on Nazi war criminals, he answered: "I don't know. I'm just following orders." Funny? The 94 persons who wrote or called up the network- an unusual...
...treating once-shocking themes with a maturity and candor unthinkable even five years ago: the life of drug addicts in Chappaqua, homosexuality in Reflections, racial hatred in In the Heat of the Night. And The Graduate, a new Mike Nichols film, is an alternately comic and graphic closeup of a 19-year-old boy whose sexual fantasies come terrifyingly true...