Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of getting into primitive fancy dress: all the painters involved were 20th century city dwellers, they had read Freud and Jung, some of them (notably Pollock) had been in analysis, and they were well aware that the "savage mind" cannot be mimicked by an act of will. The only form of primitivism available to modern man, their paintings argue in different voices, is the unconscious. Just as the young bourgeois intellectuals who formed surrealism turned their revolt against their own class into something like a religious principle, so the New York painters declared their separation from American materialism...
...just social criticisms and youthful idealism. At the same time they can note the inertness of a massively materialistic society without be coming shrill and off-putting about it. In short, there is a welcome and unexpected maturity of outlook in this little film that is extraordinarily attractive no matter where you happened to stand during the '60s or how you feel about the way things are going in the '70s. Above all, it provides the most agreeable moviegoing experience in months...
...such is the charm of Moses Wine, and the curiosity of those he encounters in his search, that one does not feel like complaining too heartily about this matter, especially when Dreyfuss and the rest of the cast play so well, and Director Kagan finds so much that is pungent and fresh in that most overused of movie locations, Los Angeles...
...Skipper couldn't sleep. Then this plastic thing dropped a gold disc into the lagoon (it was supposed to be a satellite, but the special effects didn't exactly rival Star Wars). Then there was a tidal wave (I'm leaving things out, but it doesn't really matter). They floated out to sea in their hut and a helicopter spotted them...
Last Saturday was Part One, and part Two couldn't be worse, no matter how hard they try. It might be nice to see the house of Thurston Howell III ('30), and I'd like to see Gilligan marry Mary Ann. Maybe they'll dump society and go back to the island, but that would be too inspired...