Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed I wish I could take a nap right now, but I won't, for I feel compelled to tell you that the mood of the seventies has at last filtered down into the American cinema. After a year of indecisiveness from our American moviemakers (to wit, such products as the Perrys' Diary of a Mad Housewife and Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, films which serve the purpose of marking time rather than moving on), two major (and generally successful) works expressing the funereal feeling of the decade ahead have arrived in time to brighten up the holiday season...
...Anybody would think twice before they'd commit murder because of the way those dogs bark. They're great company to me. The less I think of some people, the more I think of my dogs. I can leave in the morning and be in a bad mood, and when I come home at night they'll jump all over...
...time the Stones appeared, several heads had been busted and the crowd was in a frightened, surly mood. Even Mick Jagger, rock's definitive superstar, could not get them to cool down and listen to the music. The crowd pushed closer and closer to the stage, and the Angels just as angrily pushed them back. Suddenly, someone pulled a gun. The Angels went after him, knifed him down and did him in. Those close enough to the incident were appalled. Those who were not, quickly caught the mood of tragedy and left the concert silent and shaken...
Well, given an auteur who's also a good director, he will manage to come up with as good an explication of his films as most critics; possibly, because of his fine eve for visuals, a better one. He does champion such out-of-current mood directors as Peckinpah and Renoir; he is generally concerned with instituting fashion according to his own "impassioned" integrity rather than merely following the fashionable (though his recent 2001 recantation was curious indeed). With such developments as his labeling of Fellini as the "Busby Berkeley of metaphysics," and a latent inclination towards admirable historical research...
...grandmother's mood suddenly changed. "I just hope God will spare us all, so that we can continue to live...