Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Light of the Aryans," the Shah of Iran. His country, the world's second largest oil exporter, quadrupled its petroleum earnings, to $20.9 billion. Impatient to industrialize and militarize, the Shah pressed the construction of automobile and petrochemical factories, dams and hospitals, and ordered 70 F-4 Phantom jets and 800 British Chieftain tanks to bolster a mighty armed force. This swelling strength raised apprehensions among some Arab governments in the region and evoked new hostility?but also won new respect in Washington, where Iran is valued as an anti-Communist bulwark. Though much poverty and illiteracy hang...
...PHANTOM OF LIBERTE. A Series of surreal blackout sketches by Luis Buñuel, loosely grouped around the theme of man's perverse pleasure in paradox. Buñuel creates in this film a paradox of his own: a work that is carbolic and tonic all at once...
...vehicles tailored-to-measure for pop stars, documentaries offering cinema-verité glimpses of Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones. There have even been a couple of films that used the world of rock as a metaphor for power and ruin: for in stance, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (TIME...
...does, lends the proceedings a few fleeting moments of dignity. Morrissey has little time for dignity, how ever. He has, for the moment, forsaken his customary languor; it is this rejuvenated spirit - perhaps a result of all the blood - that gives Andy Warhol's Dracula its few silly, phantom pleasures...
...movie will be something of a downer for rock cultists who find that the real objects of De Palma's scornful (and occasionally too anarchical) satire are themselves and their false gods. Others will find Phantom of the Paradise a crazy, savage film-iconoclastic and truly liberating. ∙Richard Schickel