Word: films
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming Home and The Deer Hunter, in any case, are only the beginning. Still to come is Francis Ford Coppola's long delayed $35 million Apocalypse Now, opening in August. Coppola has based the film on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie...
...anomaly of Viet Nam. "The Norman Mailers and William Styrons and all those guys stayed at Harvard for this war. The real literary genius never went." Nonetheless, Bunting expects that "within the next three or five years, there will be a major, successful Catch-22-stylG novel and film about Viet Nam. Only then will we be far enough away so as to see behind the grotesque and see how miserably and squalidly funny the whole thing...
Musicals date even faster than plays, and if one pilfers the formulas of the past, as the fashioners of Carmelina have, one has to be lucky enough to find a fossil audience to match. Based on the 1968 film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, Carmelina tells the tale of Signora Carmelina Campbell, a Southern Italian beauty winningly played by Georgia Brown. During World War II, she made love to three G.I.s and, to one of them, bore a daughter now 17 and ascribed to a dead hero ingeniously named for a soup can. A postwar reunion of the U.S. liberators...
Antoine may be a child, but there is nothing childish about the films in which he appears. Through this character, Truffaut has found the perfect means for exploring some profound dilemmas of the heart. In Antoine's restlessness the director sees love's unpredictability, its evanescence, its incompatibility with the rude dailiness of life. Truffaut believes true romance can last only as long as a fleeting, stolen kiss, but, even so, he is not a weary pessimist. Each time Antoine (the ever boyish Jean-Pierre Leaud) picks himself up off the floor for another doomed fling...
...moments. Truffaut picks up Antoine, now a novelist, on the eve of his divorce from Christine (Claude Jade), whom he courted in Stolen Kisses and married in Bed and Board (1970). Antoine is already in hot pursuit of new prey. As usual, nothing in the film turns out as first expected. By the t'me it is over, Truffaut has cagily shifted the audience's perspective on all his characters. A couple who appear to be lovers turn out to be siblings. Antoine's plot for a new novel turns out to be a major clue...