Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...examination of cultural dissolution and personal disillusion does much to restore the film to its proper stature-as a souvenir of a time already in recession. Sooner than anyone imagines, The Guru will serve to remind audiences of that peculiar, irretrievable time when Mod dogs and Englishmen went out in the noonday...
...film's romance is the narrow province of the guide (Ian McShane) and an American businesswoman (Suzanne Pleshette). Between their mooning glances, the viewer is given a fast shuffle of Venice, London, Brussels and Rome. The scenes flick by like telephone poles seen from a moving window; Director Mel Stuart is more interested in drawing gross caricatures of his gawking, squawking, hamburger-hungry tourists...
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is a film festival of contradictions. An avowed Communist and atheist, he made his most celebrated movie an evocation of Christian drama: The Gospel According to St. Matthew. In his newest film, Teorema (English translation: Theorem), Pasolini takes images of voluptuous beauty and physical love and turns them into a film of suppurating ugliness, most of it unintentional...
...identical emotion. Every other shot, it seems, is the crotch of a pair of male dungarees; every adolescent attempt at high metaphysics recalls the warning that mysticism begins with mist and ends in schism. In his soft-centered drama of sex as destroyer and healer, the once promising film maker sedulously apes D. H. Lawrence, whom he seems to have both studied and misunderstood. In the future, Pasolini might well heed an earlier author, whose Sonnet 94 could have been addressed to artists who inflict private fantasies on their public...
European Concept. She is probably the first serious, practicing literary critic not to assume the primacy of print. In pieces like "Theatre and Film," she constantly works to break down old critical boundaries like the one between "fine arts" and "popular arts." She has not only declared that culture is a single kingdom-Bach to the Beatles, Henry James to Bergman-but perceived and firmly insisted (in the chapter "What's Happening in America-1966") that politics cannot be discussed outside the cultural context in which they occur. This last is essentially a European concept, and her interest...