Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROMEO AND JULIET. Director Franco Zeffirelli translates one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays into a surprisingly effective quattrocento West Side Story. As the star-crossed young lovers, Olivia Hussey...
...rather surprised at the concluding remark of "The Jeering Section": "The song the students chose was Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign." If the writer had been familiar with the words of the song, I'm sure he would agree that it truly was the theme of the 1968 campaign: And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more,/People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening . . . The sounds of silence...
...drawing it into his vacuum-cleaner snout. "So long, sucker," yells a Beatle as they escape. Nonetheless, the eclecticism of Edelmann's drawings disturbs as much as it captivates. The difficulty begins when it becomes hard to reconcile the different effects of Warhol-like silkscreen backgrounds, Vanderbeek photomontage, familiar comic strip characters, and Pepperland's Picasso thorny shrubs...
...particularly interesting documentary at that. The performers aren't on enough to counteract the boredom of the over-familiar romping. The psychedelic segments look primitive after Space Odyssey. The music (by John Simon) doesn't measure up to the best rock...
...depict the Beatles' world as it really is, but largely created a wacky life-style for them that would be novel for the audience. Feinstein, on the other hand, simply shows us hip youth as it is. This could be fun if we weren't already familiar with this terrain. But we've seen or even lived what he shows ourselves; nothing in You Are What You Eat is new or exciting. Since the film has no characters, there is no personal story we can wrap ourselves in. Nor, of course, is the movie's subject artificial...