Word: dialecticism
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WHILE the filmmaker-revolutionaries of our "developed" culture are busily spinning abstract "fabrics of contradiction," using the formal tools of High Intellectuality, Glauber Rocha has created a vital and concrete anti-imperialist Cinema Novo in Brazil with the forms of a crude dialectic generated organically out of revolutionary struggle. The...
Rocha treats these conflicts between elites and masses in two other films about primitive religion in the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Black God. White Devil (1964) and Antonio das Mortes (1969) where the people are actually killed off during the fighting between the elite revolutionary cangaceiros and the beatos, the...
Never has pornography been this skillfully manipulative (or this frustrating), using pure surfaces to arouse "dangerous emotions," and then refusing to purge them. In perhaps overemphasizing Sontag's aesthetics I've neglected to mention how extremely disquieting the film is emotionally, with respect to familiar personal relationships. I'm speaking...
Enraged Amazons. "The Prisoner of Sex," out this week, features more four-letter words than Harper's has printed in all its 121-year history. Mailer's 47,000-word exercise in sexual dialectic will probably blow brains not only among Lib ladies but a sizable segment of...
Confession has enough individual merits to redeem its overall flaws. Though their film lacks the compact literacy of The Prisoner, Costa-Gavras and his Z squad (Screenwriter Jorge Semprun and Director of Photography Raoul Coutard) are too subtle and ingenious to make anything conspicuously bad. The brutal indifference of lower...