Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caan, he is too trim and cool ever to make us believe that he is more interesting than any other spoiled child. To be sure, he is attempting a difficult thing -acting out the role of gratuitous self-torture -but his performance is never really as vertiginously mad as it should be. The whole film is just a fantasy about going crazy, a fantasy never for a moment in danger of becoming the genuine article...
...PALOMA is a wonderfully mad shotgun wedding of high camp, movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive romanticism and impudent satire. It is also oddly -very oddly-moving; not innovative, perhaps, but quite unique. The second film of a young Swiss named Daniel Schmid, it is a reshaping of the story of Camille, with some strains from La Traviata thrown in for good measure. Imagine a hothouse hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have...
Juggernaut updates the Noon plot device by combining it with that most lamentable of contemporary genres, the catastrophe epic. This time, it is a floating city that is in danger: the liner Britannic, with 1,200 passengers aboard. The mad bomber is ... well, let's just say disgruntled. No use ruining the surprise...
...cannot then imagine himself turning around and facing the same street in the opposite direction. Rather than pivot easily on toe and heel, he must with hideous effort swing his entire dream street, post office, taxis, stray dogs and all, 180° around on the axis of his own mad self. Eventually, obsession invades reality. He walks to the end of a real village street, cannot turn, and falls in a paralytic fit. Thus does Nabokov poke dignified fun at himself. The novel is wholly lighthearted, a sunny absurdity that offers a mocking bow to the author...
...schlag parlors of lovely Vienna, amid which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries assembled for its quarterly meeting last week. Whatever the reason, the gathering of the 13-nation cartel that controls about two-thirds of the non-Communist world's crude oil eventually dissolved into a Mad Hatter's tea party of illogic. The sharply rising oil prices imposed by O.P.E.C. in the course of the past year have been largely responsible for spiraling international inflation. Yet delegates of the oil-producing nations, with only Saudi Arabia dissenting, voted to impose additional tax and royalty charges...