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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clowns) are ineptly performed. The only song that retains its full stage power is A Weekend in the Country, in which music and lyrics merge ingeniously to sum up at least five of the story's subplots and seven of its characters at once. Even in the context of this moribund film, the number is so magically conceived that it could pass as a smash musical all by itself...
...planned. The first statement on détente was issued jointly by Moscow and Washington, advocating military relaxation in the Middle East. It was a violent shock to us because, as I have previously explained, we lagged at least twenty steps behind Israel and so "military relaxation" in this context could mean nothing but giving in to Israel...
...either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women will have to start our great vacations with one of your competitors." In a nonplused reply, Lundstrom asserted that "we never considered that such a headline ... would have been taken out of context." Nonetheless, his consciousness presumably raised, he agreed to withdraw...
...peers that one derived vengeful satisfaction when she-literally-brought the house of her tormentors down around them. By contrast, The Fury exists from the start in the fictional world of movies and paperbacks - a place where secret agents, car chases and shootouts are routine. In that context, psychokinesis requires no greater dislocation than James Bond's latest bit of fanciful hardware...
...Serpent's Egg. Ingmar Bergman hasn't set a film in a broad, sociological context in a long time. It shows. If this means his next film will be a masterpiece, then it's probably worth it. It doesn't take genius to figure out there's something very, very wrong with this movie, but so many critics have dwelled cruelly and accurately on its short-comings, that I'd like to confine this discussion to the film's good qualities...