Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than half of Wodstock directly records the musical performances, and considering the ones Wadleigh has chosen the emphasis is fatal (one film we didn't need was a grainier Monterey Pop ). The rest is taken up with sundry interviews in which predictable subjects-freaks, police, old folks, etc.-make predictable commentary (predictable, that is, if you know the Woodstock myth-i.e., the policeman will say these are a great bunch of kids. etc.), and a variety of material which aims at revealing the life style of the populace. With the exception of the initial interview, in which...
...morn will dawn that fatal...
...Congressmen gave President Nixon's welfare reform bill any chance of easy passage when it was introduced last October. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills was skeptical about the revolutionary proposal, and his opposition would have been fatal to the bill. Some legislators doubted that even Nixon really wanted the measure approved. Therefore, it came as a surprise to everyone, including the President, when Ways and Means first gave the bill its 21-to-3 approval, and then last week sent the legislation to the floor of the House. Even more surprising, Mills agreed to serve...
This problem, combined with the lack of singing voices, the near-fatal miscasting of the female lead, and the lack of style in much of the blocking and pseudo-choreography, gave me that feeling of death I associate with the Saturday afternoons I spent taking tickets at a theatre in Washington where so many hopeful Broad-way shows seemed to wilt up and die before my very eyes during their tryouts...
...desert, she is Antonioni's hope for life, partly because of her pure responses (feeling "at home" in the desert) but also simply because she survives the course of the film. Mark may be the first white militant in Commercial Narrative Film, but he is marked by impotence and fatal lack of vision; his response to the desert is that it is dead, i. e. safe, and his irrational behavior chains him to the past-the illogical first third of the film. When Daria drives out of frame at the end of Zabriskie Point, the camera pans to a lurid...