Word: milius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view shot is over there at NYU and that they can shoot in subways and make a second story window look like the forty-seventh floor, but the film itself just isn't there over-and-above its elementary expertise. The winning cartoon, Marcello, I'm So Bored (John Milius; University of Southern California) tritely surveys familiar ground (wicked old Southern California) in Disneylike animation, drawings, and for the piece de resistance, a little photographic negative. That it says nothing and means nothing is troubling only because the negative footage looks well cut; one wonders why Milius didn't make...
...ANIMATION: Marcello, I'm So Bored by John Milius, 23, of U.S.C., begins with an epitaph from the late Erroll Flynn: "I believe I'm a very colorful character in a rather drab age." It then flashes through a quick-cutting kaleidoscope of mindless pleasure seekers-motorcyclists, teenyboppers, discothèque dancers-accompanied by a sound track of sighs and despairing screams. One judge saw in the eight-minute film a viable cinematic equivalent...
WARREN F. MILIUS St. Louis...