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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Candy Mountain...
WATCHING Candy Mountain is something akin to staying up all night listening to a disgruntled teenager; the experience is lengthy, exhausting and ultimately unproductive...
...director, Robert Frank, has said that he intended this film to be a "road movie," and in that he has certainly succeeded. The plot of Candy Mountain unrolls something like The Wizard of Oz on high-octane fuel. It all hinges on a frankly ludicrous rock-'n'-roll quest...
Strangest of all, perhaps, as the fact that this film wasn't even shot well. Frank is known as a legendary still photographer, with such classic works as "The Americans" behind him, and his free handed, experimental film techniques have been much celebrated and imitated. In Candy Mountain, however, his camera work only manages to confirm all your worst fears about a documentary director making a feature film; i.e. what seems immediate and convincing in cinema verite appears only sloppy and amateurish when scripted. It's incredible that some of this footage got used at all: too much rapid panning...
...February is usually carnival time in Petropolis, a mountain resort near Rio de Janeiro. But two weeks of storms washed away this year's pre-Lenten samba parade and general merrymaking. More than 20 in. of rain pelted Petropolis (pop. 250,000) and other cities, triggering floods and landslides that buried whole neighborhoods in tons of mud. By last week the devastation had left more than 200 people dead and 600 injured. But at least 17 people, some buried for 48 hours, were saved when civil defense teams pumped oxygen through tubes pushed into...