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...publicity. Knowing what's going to happen makes an innocent event like a young woman skinny-dipping on a summer night doubly frightening. A movie like laws thrives in the public eye because it delivers the goods. The Exorcist procliamed that it had a couple of jackpots--the crucifix, the flying green vomit--behind curtain number three, and it had to be seen to be believed. Everything else was just garbage--the eleven bad songs to fill out the hit single album. Jaws was more refreshing than. The Exorcist partly because it didn't pretend that the filler was anything...
Blazing Carrots, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 p.m. The Ruling Class. Peter O'Toole is a saintly-string of blonde hair and blue eyes here, playing a young aristocrat who is a psychotic, schizophrenic, paranolac, psychopathic nut, who takes his relaxation by hanging himself up on a crucifix in the parior, and who is uncomfortable in the role of noble and has no respect for his wealth or position. We're supposed to like him--he's the truly sane one, right? A worthless creep, I think--the idea is admirable, and there are a couple of good...
Hence the cinema of the extreme, with visual effects and emotions so exaggerated that sheer volume is all that counts. Destroy Los Angeles; film a twelve-year-old girl masturbating with a crucifix: wallow in solitary confinement with Steve McQueen on Devil's Island--ten million dollar's worth of a dark screen. a few cockroaches, and no talking. I remember last summer, caught in a miserable little movie called The Terminal Man (from Michael Crichton, with George Segal), finding myself watching the Man (who has an alien machine brain lobotomized into his skull so that his actions are uncontrollable...
...special meeting. The mood was noticeably different from that of the earlier meeting. The Pontiff explained that "it was this very affection that we have for you that drove us to interpose our authority in the course of recent events." After presenting the Jesuits with a valuable crucifix, he announced that he had approved the four documents he had received so far from the Congregation -including one that could provide a back-door way for more men to take the fourth...
...works of Miodrag Djuric Dado, a Yugoslav painter who works in France. His L 'Hôpital has a jolting impact: beyond the window is the peaceful French village where Dado now lives. Inside, a demon in the shape of an owl crouches by the central crucifix, near the dancing man and his maimed and malevolent companion. A rotund dwarf grins and looks away. What does it mean? Perhaps that these phantasms exist, within any hospital's clutching walls, even when life goes on routinely on the outside...