Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historical document. One can also learn by examining the economic and ideological motives of the film-makers. Included in the colloquium's schedule are films by various government agencies as well as films by radical film-makers working outside the commercial movies industry. Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard...
Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message...
...grim-looking stockade is the brainchild of a group of Jamaican psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists. It is supposed to convey the message that crime does not pay-and apparently it has succeeded. According to police statistics, there were only eight murders by gunfire during the first three months after creation of the gun court, compared with 29 in the previous three months...
There are lots of books and movies about similar declines and falls, but a lot of them--Gone with the Wind or Graham Greene's The Quiet American--don't convey the reality of the underside of the world they're nostalgic for, and so they end up in cheap sentimentality or cheap cynicism. Roth takes neither of these easy paths. When Lieutenant Trotta has his men shoot some striking factory workers, he does it with no ill will or satisfaction--but he still kills people for wanting work that doesn't mean getting tuberculosis. All Roth's jokes, even...
...wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here." But Moscow's preposterous Watergate coverage raises another question: whether the concept of détente includes an obligation on the part of Soviet authorities to convey to their people at least some glimmer of truth about the American political system...