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...Opening tonight at Off The Wall, this is Jean-Luc Godard's filmed visit to America doing a film he never finished, made by D.A. Pennebaker, the cameraman for Don't Look Back and Monterey Pop Full of real late-sixties stuff--Cleaver, the Airplane. Tom Hayden. Call 354-5678 for info...
...wild acceptance. When Janis talked about feeling good, it always came out forced. When she sang, though, people responded, not so much to the exultation of her music as to the plea and the desperation that lay close underneath it all. Twice in the film-after performances at the Monterey Festival and a Cavett show -we watch her receive stops-out acclaim with hungry thanks and with a look of full radiance. Joplin's misfortune was that she lived so hard just for those moments...
...dream was born in the claptrap romantic movies of the 1940s. Anachronistic Alice (Ellen Burstyn), who is bright enough in other ways, dimly believes that time has stood implausibly still in Monterey, where she grew up. To her, it is the logical place to resume a career that apparently consisted of a single gig at the local hotel...
...touch with reality in the conventional manner of movie heroines with more determination than sense. She simply, clumsily wants to improve reality a little. Needless to say, what she finds on the road to Monterey is mostly no improvement on what she had in Socorro. The first man she meets turns out to be cheating on his wife and maniacally possessive about Alice. The steadiest job she can find is in an uproariously mismanaged hash house...
...hard look at the group's prospects for hanging together for five whole years. They decided that their do-it-yourself project was indeed practical. After carefully selecting a site that was suitably high, dry and far from city lights in the Los Padres National Forest near Monterey, they dubbed their brainchild MIRA-the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy...