Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a C. But Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy, rated X by the film industry itself, got the Catholics' A-4 (O.K. for adults "with reservations") because it was seen as a serious slice-of-life film, homosexuality and all. Another A-4 film, John Travolta's disco epic Saturday Night Fever, was deemed to contain positive moral values, despite dissolute doings in the back seat...
...proudest family legends, remembered almost as an epic among America's 12,000 Bosnian Muslims, is the digging of Chicago's subway tunnels in the early 1900s...
...anyone has made a movie like this one, in which white men and Indians endlessly and mindlessly bash away at one another. Scripts about the Indian wars probably do not have to deal with weighty matters like racism, as revisionist film historians insist. But the typical skulk-and-scalp epic today appears feeble even just as entertainment...
...readers can now look at Carl Sandburg's epic without embarrasment. Happily, one of them is Studs Terkel. His vocabulary is sophisticated, his questions are informed by contemporary psychology and social theory. But Terkel's credulity remains that of the '30s populist who regards the American people as "a reservoir of untapped power and new astonishments...
...chic Penthouse perusers haven't come out in full force to see Caligula, especially at $7.50 a pop in New York and $6.00 in Boston. After 31 weeks in New York and Los Angeles the film has grossed less than $5 million, a rather paltry sum for such epic trash. But Bob Guccione won't starve. If the chic desert him, there will always be horny old men and pubescent boys...