Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miss the endless arguments that threaten to push you beyond the brink of reason until, at moments, you find a spark of understanding between seemingly irreconcilable opposites. You miss the almost palpable effort, both painful and exhilarating, that is often required to resist anger or despair. You miss a sense of being where the action is, where the decisions happen. You miss, finally, the balance that must be struck anew each day between All Is Lost and Everything Is Possible...
...first try for an acting job, and it was 14 years before he was needed that badly. Then, as the one articulate, genuinely comic character in Easy Rider, Nicholson became a leading participant in the upheaval that has caused Hollywood, for better or for worse, to churn out an endless series of "relevant," youth-oriented little movies. The role won him the New York Film Critics' Award, an Academy Award nomination and a leading role in Director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge. In the meantime he is appearing in Five Easy Pieces in a starring role that should...
CINEMATIC RADICALISM offers such endless varieties of possible forms that it will always resist the elevation of a single possibility- "militant cinema." for example- to the status of dogma. What matters most is not the particular form, but the necessity of creating the awareness of form, and, from there, of pointing out the limitations of content, and, finally, of generating criticism. Film remains film (not dogma: truth and lies 24 times a second), and the experience of film becomes process rather than product. The forms for accomplishing this alienation from the sacred reality of art cannot be prescribed: if sacred...
...least the fjords should have come alive with the sound of Grieg's music, but its richness is lost in endless romps over Julie Andrews' old daffodilled hillsides. It may be argued that Song is aimed at the kids. If so, they will quail pitifully when Grieg the reluctant piano teacher whacks a slow pupil across the, knuckles à la Seventh Veil. Anyway, today's Sesame Street-schooled youngsters are much too sophisticated to be beguiled by so banal and outmoded a story line. ∎Mark Goodman
...question is why. Surely there is a considerable surplus of these caper epics, involving the intricate mechanics of some complicated robbery scheme and the assorted tensions and rivalries, professional or romantic, among the people who carry them through. Gambit, Topkapi, How to Steal a Millionthe list seems endless. But the genre is not, as Perfect Friday proves...