Word: phantasmagoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitchcock Friday. Red Desert, middle period Antomennui Sarris's phrase) with beautiful color is paired with Juliet of the Spirits Felinis unsuccessful attempt to do for a frustrated house wife what 8 1/2 did for a castrated male artist leading as well into the garish technique of his. Satyricon phantasmagoria which plays Saturday doubled thank God. With one of the all time greats. Bergman's Passion of Anna the culmination of two decades of cinematic experiment, psychological examination and religious questioning. The only people who don't admire it are certain radical film critics who consider Bergman an "elitist." Sunday...
Jesus Christ, Superstar. Late Fellini phantasmagoria seems to have murdered as many stage directors as it did film makers. Ugh. AQUARIUS, THEATER, Tues., Wed., Thurs., eves & Fri. and Sat. eves...
Satyricon--A vile Fellini phantasmagoria based on Petronius but lacking the wit and lightness of the epicurean's touch. With Marat Sade, Peter Brook's sensational and sensationalistic production of the finally incoherent Peter Weiss play. CINEMA 733 (Thurs. and Fri.) Call 266-0342 for times...
...focal point-one can hardly say hero-of this phantasmagoria is a movie director named Norman T. Kingsley (played by Mailer), who is also a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. While a shadow cabinet of kingmakers sits in his house discussing his future, Kingsley is out on the lawn auditioning young actresses for a new movie. Parts of that film-conceived of as a kind of satire on Belle de Jour in which men run a brothel catering to perverse women customers-becomes a movie within Maidstone. It is, indeed, often impossible to discern which...
Surely no two phenomena could be more incompatible-in the abstract. The abstract being that two-dimensional landscape of rhetoric and copulative verbs that permits such phantasmagoria as the preceding paragraph. Bitter tears, dear reader, on my copy of What Is Cinema? Open City, Voyage to Italy, General Della Rovere, and now The Rise of Louis XIV: there is something in the anonymity of Rossellim's aesthetic, beyond abstraction or mere being, which resists the a priori...