Word: flick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a half hour and another Stoogies flick I desperately wanted order. Assistant professor Paul Cantor (the Myths of Creation guy) was trying to speak and the area around the podium was littered with beer cans: halfway through every sentence deep voices would bellow "Shut up!" or "You suck...
...Love. Enderby's position is too cleverly undermined by irony, too mined with paradox, to prevail. In The Wreck of the Deutschland (the poem, not the flick), one of the nuns at the moment of her death "christens her wild worst Best," just as Hopkins himself struggled a lifetime to confirm precisely in private pain and worldy rebuff some clear sign of God's forgiving love. Enderby attempts to perform the same sort of personal miracle. Desperately he tries to see the cruelty, vulgarity and violence not as correctable aberrations but as signs that man is still free...
Schlock shock is a proliferating film subspecies: the horror flick that will do anything, show anything, to churn a stomach and raise some neck hair. The trend started several years back with Night of the Living Dead, wherein marauding zombies dined on freshly slain humans. The movie was made on lo cation around Pittsburgh - that sounds like the first line of a joke but it's a fact - employing local actors and a great many spare parts from nearby butcher shops. The movie won a campy-seedy reputation and turned a nice profit. Imitations have ranged from Andy...
EMMANUELLE TRIES to make the long climb from pornography to pornographic art and gets tangled up in some embarrassing place in between. At first this big budget, soft-core, high-class porn flick seems to be just a confused attempt to rival Last Tango in Paris as a sophisticated X. rated movie--that the ads promise "will change the meaning of X." Not content with just visual eroticism, director Just Jaeckin tries to convince us that he's making a serious philosophical statement on human sensuality. He fails not so much because he lack the originality...
...large, well-heeled audience out there that loves pornography, is too fastidious to seek out the crass version in the Combat Zone, and will pay through the teeth to have it served up with a veneer of class. For this reason Emmanuelle isn't just a skin flick, but has been made into a film with towering pretensions to philosophical and artistic merit. These conceits make the film ridiculous where it might otherwise have been a little boring, but nice to look...