Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick's stunning film, which defines man's past and describes his future, uses some of the most fantastic visual effects in the history of motion pictures...
...CARABINIERS. This artful and not altogether somber discourse on the brutalizing effects of war is quite possibly Director Jean-Luc Godard's best film since Breathless...
...lifted the underground cinema's popularity to new heights while sinking the contents to sadistic depths. His bent is parody and plotlessness, and he has a whimsical flair. Sleep shows six hours of just that; Empire, eight hours long, stars the Empire State Building. ****-the title spoofs film ratings-originally lasted all day and night...
...best-known film, The Chelsea Girls-it earned $500,000-shows its huge-eyed heroines disporting in kaleidoscopic perversity; in I, a Man, one droll scene shows a pea-jacketed lesbian sneeringly turning down the tomcat antihero. Playing the lesbian in that film was Val Solanas, 28, who last year formed the Society for Cutting Up Men. Her S.C.U.M. manifesto begins: "Life in this society being at best an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system...
...crumbling 18th century villa in the dusky hills near Padua, Italy, where Vanessa Redgrave, 31, showed up last month to film her new ghost-chiller A Quiet Place in the Country, was far from quiet. In fact, there seemed to be more shades underfoot than on the windows, which mysteriously slammed shut while chairs rattled unaided across floors, drawers floated out of place, and cameras smashed inexplicably. Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering...