Word: deliriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odds, one of its most enduring. Anyone who thinks for a moment that such show-business comparisons might be crass would do well to consider that, while Britain may not be the most flamboyant nation on earth, it is surely the most theatrical. The pageantry, and indeed the calibrated delirium, of the wedding celebration are the distillation not only of national spirit but of a shared dramatic soul...
Leave me free to rave in my delirium...
...John Ford shown in 30 minutes. They should have realized that narrative coherence is to Cimino as a snake is to an elephant: he doesn't ignore it so much as trample over it. The Deer Hunter was a botch as a story, but it had redeeming social delirium. No such luck with Heaven's Gate. An eye for portentous vistas and a yen for pretentious allegory-just those factors that won The Deer Hunter its raves and Oscars-proved Cimino's undoing when he moved from Viet Nam 1970 to Johnson County...
...Christopher Walken, Cimino, though, was a talented, but unimaginative, amateur: it was obvious in every frame. Yet the movie "touched a chord." While the socially conscious called it narrow-minded and racist--declaiming it as a disgusting, reactionary lie--most critics drooled over it. One critic, in her delirium, even hailed it as "the most honest and political film about Vietnam to date." The movie glorified the common man, it told you it was okay to love your country right or wrong. It copped five major Academy Awards. It made money--and, in Hollywood, profits are the measure of genius...
Altered States. A modern Dr. Jekyll unleashes the primal beast within himself. The meeting of Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell set off a daft, cagey combustion of ideas and styles, producing a fantasy of delirium and delight...