Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS is a slick adaptation of Philip Roth's novella about being young, in love and Jewish. Director Larry Peerce is a canny craftsman, and if his film is a little too glossy, his actors-especially beautiful newcomer Ali MacGraw-all perform with warm and endearing conviction...
Oliver!, a film which features dirty little kids singing and dancing in the London slums, won the most Oscars, including those for best picture and director...
...manic right-wingers. Jon asks to be put in the "middle" lines so that he can pick off a few "niggers, spics, Jews, and other commies" while he is shooting "the chinks." Vietnam, and the ways in which it has changed and bedeviled young people, runs through this film like a leitmotif...
...voyeur who tells girls he is a movie maker to get them to take off their clothes. Paul is a computer dater. He has one "premature ejaculation scene" which sounds like it should be very sexy, but is rather just very funny. Don't go to this film expecting to be aroused. The sex scenes are mostly about the horniness of the trio, and made me all the more embarrassed at the horniness that kept my eyes glued on the screen...
Greetings is doom comedy about searching amidst chaos, and the half-assed things young people do when they are confused. It's a good film. There are a lot of funny lines, and I laughed very hard. But someday we won't laugh about the draft, the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, or perverse sex. Someday Greetings will remind us of a time when we got hip, and made a Heaven out of a national Hell, but got debased, and arrived at something which was just a new hell all over again...