Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S RESTAURANT. This is a film about young people that is, as they say, very much together. Taking Arlo Guthrie's hit song of a couple of years ago, Director Arthur Penn has fashioned a sad, funny, tragic, beautiful picture of a way of life...
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) makes his star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) stumble through such an incredibly long list of bungles and pitfalls that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments...
...their own ends. Recently in New York, a radio station was approached by the CIA looking to recruit foreign correspondents as agents. Over the past year, law enforcement agencies have stepped up the use of subpoena powers for "fishing expeditions" in the files of newspapers and TV news film libraries. And just last week in Chicago, hundreds of feet of network news-film-some of it never intended for broadcast-were introduced into the conspiracy trial over defense objections that such a move violates the freedom and independence of the press. "It's just that...
...retention. Some are based on a sort of psychedelic flash card system that assaults young minds with a pleasant barrage of sights, sounds and colors repeated over and over. Often the Muppets, ingenious hand puppets with all the comfortable soft sell of a favorite doll, talk about ideas. Short film clips are also used to great advantage, sometimes with bouncy bubble-gum rock music in the background...
...since he made I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, he has clearly done a little pot smoking; the "getting stoned" scene in his new picture has no freaking out and colored lights. Mazursky provides, at last, an honest, non-exploitational treatment of the joys of grass in a Hollywood film...