Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT is all but finished, and Ken Booth knows it. Vietnam, the draft, the '60s--they seem to have been forgotten. When Booth, the central figure in John Godey's novel The Talisman, and a few others who have stayed with the movement demonstrate at the White House, not even the FBI shows up to take their photographs. So Booth searches for another way to reach the public, another way for the movement to get the attention it needs. He decides they will steal the remains of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, as ransom...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has narrative lapses, jerky editing and confusing fantasy sequences that look like Ken Russell outtakes. Brooks' idea of style is to shoot Theresa in bright sunlight when she is being a good schoolteacher and in grim shadows when she is bedding down with her rough pickups. Though the movie was shot in color, the director's vision acknowledges only blacks and whites...
...last two and a half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail-flicking that went on off the field, despite injuries to their pitching staff that clogged them throughout, despite having a $100,000 fungo hitter in Ken Holtzman, despite Bucky Dent's mediocrity, despite George Steinbrenner's obtrusive presence...
VALENTINO. Directed by Ken Russell. Screenplay by Russell and Martin...
Alas, poor Rudy: his bad luck with producers and directors extends 50 years beyond the grave. For his life has now fallen into the feverish-not to say hysterical-hands of Ken Russell, a director whose singular style and energy once promised excitement, but which now promise nothing but outrage...