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Jacques Villon's "Seated Woman" is an equally disturbing comment on the effects of modernity on human beings. A tiny figure huddles in the background while its huge rabbit-like feet lunge into the foreground. The image is not comical; the clenched fists, open mouth and oversized staring eyes cry out like Edvard Munch's tortured souls...
...moves the camera, now the subject. Pianos eat, and heads move independent of bodies; this strange world defies definition, adding a new dimension to Parisian impressionism: the paintings can move. The film ends with a stunning reproduction of a Van Gogh wheatfield; a flock of ravens flies to the foreground and the frame freezes...
...masterpieces; significantly, Hanna Schygulla starred in all three. She is to Fassbinder what Giancarlo Gianini is to Lena Wertmuller: a charismatic presence who carries the entire film. Despite arresting cinematographic touches--chilling musical inserts, the startling shot of an unidentified man pawing a women's breasts in the foreground--and solid performances by other actors, The Marriage of Maria Braun depends for its success upon the all-pervasive influence of Schygulla. The film has already garnered prizes at this year's Berlin Film Festival to her for best actress, and to Fassbinder for best director. One waits...
...demonstration on October 20, the first large-scale feminist protest on the issue of pornography in ten years, took a lot of people by surprise. Conceived of two months ago by an organization which has only existed three times that long, the demonstration brought to the foreground an area of women's rights which has seldom been confronted by the women's movement and often swept under the rug by other progressive groups. Pornography--a multibillion dollar underground industry with organized crime and international connections, which WAP claims eroticizes male humiliation of and violence towards women in the name...
...with recorded choral music. The verdict--great sound quality but a little soft, a defect that has the sound engineers from Donovan and Co. scrambling. They have to do a good job. After all, they took roll after roll of publicity photos Sunday night with their truck in the foreground, the altar behind. "Test 1, 2, 3, Test 1, 2, 3," echoes through the park. And the crowd, satisfied, cheers...