Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Film Festival is a peculiar combination of international no-talents and geniuses, a show, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, of "garlic and sapphires in the mud." Last week, at its opening, the garlic was very much in evidence. This week some sapphires glint...
...eclipse came and went, I realized that if God hadn't intervened for the Crusades or for the American Indians, and for the black people torn from their roots in Africa and stomped into the mud in this country, then He wasn't going to step in this time either...
...revealing the life style of the populace. With the exception of the initial interview, in which an old, largely inarticulate fellow remembers that "there must have been at least a million of em," a romanticized long-lensed shot of a couple lying down to make love, and the mud-sliding sequence, this sociological material is unimaginative in the extreme. A montage of different babies, overlaid with John Sebastian's saccharine ballad to his son, just about sums...
...about twelve, origins unknown, with vulpine instincts and capacities. This Mowgli-like creature became renowned in his own time; a hundred years later, he was an object of fascination for Educator Maria Montessori. Now the cycle begins anew with this work by Francois Truffaut. At first the mud-caked curiosity (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is treated as a zoo animal, visited by Parisians who applaud his pathetic growls and tantrums. Mercifully -or so it seems-the child is taken in tow by Dr. Itard (played by Truffaut himself). The primitive behaviorist names his charge Victor and slowly teaches him the habits...
...more or less in love with a Mack truck." The Descent of Winter is the most multiform of the experiments, including poetry, narrative, criticism and autobiography. It is dense with the texture of Williams' America. Empty lots of dead grass with cinders gnawing at the borders. Children making mud dams in the gutters. Old women with seamed faces leaning over crooked front gates...