Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green Moon...
...history of a pre-Columbian city called Teotihuacan (the Aztecs' word for "the place the gods call home"), once a metropolis of as many as 200,000 inhabitants 33 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Archaeologists long regarded the city -famed for its Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun and avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between A.D. 400 and 700, Teotihuacan was literally the Big Apple of Mesoamerica, the focus of a far-flung empire that stretched from the arid...
...BLACK MOON Directed by LOUIS MALLE Screenplay by LOUIS MALLE, GHISLAIN UHRY and JOYCE BUNUEL...
Dream Pastiche. The thought is small comfort, and less justification. Louis Malle, director of Lacombe, Lucien and The Fire Within, is attempting in Black Moon some manner of dream pastiche, a symbolic fantasy of adolescence. The movie is like the ragged end of a halfhearted parlor game played by Freud and Lewis Carroll on a slow summer evening. The young girl's appearance and her slightly prissy ingenuousness come from the Alice books. So do the controlled flights of strangeness. Carroll's wit is lacking, however, and his sense of wonder...
...Black Moon has the clinical, slightly oppressive tone of dream data being recorded and examined. Freudian symbolism proliferates. The war between the sexes suggests the girl's adolescent turmoil over her own sexual identity. One notes-one can hardly avoid-the preponderance of traditional Freudian sexual metaphors: snakes, clocks, the horn of the unicorn. Add to this the curdled maternalism of the old invalid and the nearly unreachable sustenance of that outsize glass of milk, and Black Moon seems like a long case study...