Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow-mindedness of Antonioni's conception would be more tolerable were it not for his continual use of sledgehammer symbolism. The visual venom with which he passes judgment on the vapid fashion models, the glassy-eyed crowd watching the Yardbirds, and the tennis players, frequently reaches laughable proportions (two people playing tennis without a ball equals two people living in a world of illusion, get it?). This defect in Blow-Up, mostly the fault of the screenplay, greatly reduces the total effect of the film. Blow-Up, when all is said and done, is a small film dealing with large...
...Rush to Judgment. It would appear difficult to make a dull film about John Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath. Difficult, but not impossible. Mark Lane has done...
...from the sessions. Stieglitz noisily resigned last week, declaring the standards "totally inadequate" and asserting-correctly-that "my opinion was not asked on any matters." In calm reply, Haddon said that if Stieglitz had had his way, "many, if not all, 1968 passenger cars could not, in our best judgment, have been manufactured...
Lane presented his case for Lee Harvey Oswald's innocence last year, in the bestselling book Rush to Judgment. Though one-sided and full of obvious flaws, the book had a certain coherence and raised disturbing doubts in the minds of many readers. Possibly because pictures are harder to edit than words, the film version nakedly exposes the fragility of Lane's theorizing. Directed by Emile de Antonio, who made an effective movie about the McCarthy hearings, Point of Order, it purports to be a documentary. Actually, it is one long point of disorder-a poorly edited...
...counsel for the defense, Lane should never have gone to the jury-in this case the moviegoing public-with such a shaky case. He appears to be under the impression that Rush to Judgment rips the hide off America to expose the corruption beneath. But it only exposes the dry rot of his own unreasonable arguments...