Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page of the CRIMSON. Film critics now are not only obligated to judge the quality of execution (something very few could do anyway), but the righteousness of conception. If filmmakers do not have the divine ideal of the Chartres craftsmen, or even the security of a standard-setting Hollywood and socialized public, they are not possessed of the philosophic rationale developed by film critics...
...Duet for Cannibals . If this is so, the role of the alienated cultural vanguard-both necessary and sufficient-must lie in assaulting the ruling culture, in destroying the primacy of bourgeois humanism. Godard has undertaken this task politically by creating dialectical confrontations with the mystified, "larger than life" Hollywood image. He launches a direct, ideological attack, using the cinema as a two-dimensional "blackboard" to counter the "in-depth," "universal" presentation of classless "Man" in bourgeois films. The technological advent of sophisticated, depth-of-focus lenses in the '40's made possible a new reactionary genre that dominates Hollywood today...
...there too it cops out. It includes phony pieces of self-criticism; a pseudo-reflexive section wherein Elena, wanting to become an actress, has the hero take her to ICAIC, the Cuban film institute, where he just happens to know a director who has found some pieces of old Hollywood films cut out by Battista's censors, and who wants to incorporate them into a new film he's making-he doesn't know quite how, his film will be a "collage" of social bits and pieces; and thus Alea manages to slip in a description of his own film...
...that's the condition of Memories . And that's why it's reactionary: it doesn't take an approach that would help its designers or its audience understand its subject and change it; it makes personal and social conditions instead of laying them open. It is, in fact, another Hollywood film...
...oldfashioned, gray "narrative illustrations," which made it seem as if every scene were taking place in an incipient thunderstorm. Other old standbys abound. There are reprints of Tugboat Annie and Thomas Wolfe. The bylines of Paul Gallico and Ellery Queen are back, and so is that veteran Hollywood doorbell ringer, Pete Martin, with "I Call on Ali McGraw." William...