Word: lola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high, but it is undoubtedly a great film. Then there are The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries -- films Bergman has surpassed many times, yet which seem...
...phenomenal Before the Revolution, made in 1963 when he was 22, Bertolucci included a funny, affectionate cafe conversation during which a film intellectual says flatly that "the dolly shot is a moral statement." By such a playful standard, Bertolucci would be Pascal. No one since the late Max Ophuls (Lola Monies) has moved the camera quite so exuberantly, and with such easy, fluid symmetry. Such a luxurious style can sometimes weigh heavily on the material; in The Spider's Stratagem it complements the material, indeed reinforces it. Tara, its name recalling Gone With the Wind and conjuring up phantoms...
...when she sits, something she never does in public, there is a slight bulge around the middle. Still, she is a very good-looking 70, and her magnificently alluring voice is ageless. If she no longer looks like Cocteau's Lorelei, she still sounds like her-or the Lola Lola of The Blue Angel and the Frenchy of Destry Rides Again. That alone may be enough to make her special one of the brighter hours of the TV season...
Marlene Dietrich--I Wish You Love. The grand vamp of legend debuts on American television in an hour-long special taped in London last year. Dietrich sings "Falling in Love Again." "Lili Marlene," and "Lola" among a host of other tunes that she made great. CH. 7. 10 p.m. Color...
...CELLULOID HEROES," with "Muswell Hillbillies" and "Lola," is the core of the Kinks concert. Ray Davies realizes in the three songs who he was, what he became, and what he might have been. It colors his performance. He realizes what music made him famous, so he does it, run-through style, to make are it's as familiar as possible. Live Kinks is "Top of the Pops," "Till the End of the Day," "Well-Respected Man," and "Sunny Afternoon." Than he maked his statement...