Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequently no need to go into it at any great length. While this might have been a worthy thought, it had the unfortunate result of pacing the film so that the brief scenes of story material appeared at times as no more than quick fillers between often absurdly drawn-out musical numbers...
...have been improving." Even usually optimistic Premier In Tam candidly allowed that the military situation was going "from bad to worse." Villagers flee devastated hamlets as American warplanes drone overhead. Roads leading to Phnom-Penh are crowded with refugees, their pots, mattresses, bedframes and children piled high on ox-drawn carts...
...also drawn fire from some Canadians. Says Allan Aikens, senior partner of the Montreal investment firm Lafferty, Harwood and Co.: "I'm skeptical of the ability of a government-controlled corporation to participate effectively in mineral activity." Complained Gerald Baldwin, House leader of the opposition Conservative Party: "This is public money they're playing around with. It was never the purpose to do this sort of thing." Baldwin is wrong. The C.D.C. was designed "to make equity investments either in new or existing companies...
...obvious contrast to Chase's film is Marcel Ophuls' documentary on the Irish Struggle, A Sense of Loss. More can be drawn from this comparison than Ophuls' obvious technical superiority, for Chase has not felt compelled to imitate the centralist humanist politics of his precursor. Using the same subject matter and the same documentary form as A Sense of Loss, No-Go is a dare, defying the definitions of documentary film-making. No-Go makes a bid for personal politics in documentation. This is a bid with some history, including the first Russian recipes for dogmatic cinema and the propaganda...
Among the phenomena of the 1950s was the rise of the violent urban gangs with their freewheeling, sometimes lethal "rumbles" in protection of their "turf." By the mid-'60s, gangs seemed to be on the wane, their vital energies either drawn into the protest movements of that era or sapped by the burgeoning drug culture...