Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...namely that of mediator between two sides that harbor intense hate for one another-a gulf of bad blood, violence, and massacres. The United States did not impose the first disengagement agreement: she intervened to achieve a breakthrough and overcome the apparent impasse. The heading of the first disengagement document reads: American Proposal. Hence my assertion that the United States holds 99% of the cards in this game. And I shall go on saying this, even if it angers the others, namely the Soviet agents and the Soviets themselves...
...internal"settlement seems more settled Beneath a watercolor print of Rhodesia's founder, Cecil Rhodes, that had been borrowed for the occasion, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and three moderate black leaders last week signed a document that was billed as the first formal step toward black majority rule for their country. Three months after he first sat down to negotiate with Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau, Smith had apparently achieved the "internal" settlement he had been seeking...
...sexual revolution of the 1970s. Mazursky describes the skirmishes in all their neurotic glory, tots up the emotion al casualties and tries to identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report age is so accurate that one can almost ignore his failures of style and storytelling...
...specific intellectual ambitions, much less about his love life (which, juding from the film itself, would appear to border on the nonexistent). The Tavianis are, in the end, obsessed, with one goal--to somehow convey the intensity of Gavino's determination to escape his imposed ignorance, and to document the extreme measures to which this unswerving resolve drives him. Given this objective, Padre, Padrone emerges as a stunning achievement. Ultimately, Gavino Ledda's character--not to mention his environment--is never fully examined, but this is no cause for regret or second-guessing. For once, at least, slighting the whole...
When Dylan bursts into song in Renaldo and Clara, dozens of powerful memories come flooding back; a dreadful film becomes a resonant historical document. If its creator had any sense, Renaldo and Clara would be locked away in a time capsule somewhere, rather than exhibited in movie theaters...