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Listen to these guys, and you may suspect that Platoon is not so much a movie as a Rorschach blot. But that is part of the caginess of Stone's approach. The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once wrote that when a good film is also a popular film, it is because of a misunderstanding. Platoon could very well be misunderstood into superhit status. The army of Rambomaniacs will love the picture because it delivers more bang for the buck; all those yellow folks blow up real good. Aging lefties can see the film as a demonstration...
...includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
...Thursday--"Yale Mary", Jean-Luc Godard's controversial sequel to last year's hit "Hail Mary" opens amid virulent protest at the Orson Welles Theatre. The film, featuring Eli Jodie Foster as an undergraduate English major and part-time mother of God, is condemned by President Bok as "flagrant Yale propaganda." Bok adds, "Besides, Princeton is the only Ivy school that can boast a celebrated virgin...
None of that. I'm not into protests but Mother is a saint. If Jean-Luc Godard ever does to Mother what HAIL MARY (Orson Welles) has done to the Virgin Mary, I'll be there at every showing...
Alfred Guzzetti, co-director of Living at Risk, quotes a Jean-Luc Godard saying that aptly sums up his new documentary film. "One should never aim to be a political filmmaker," Godard remarked, "but instead one should make films politically...