Word: plotlessness
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...premiere, two stood out above the rest: The White Bus, a 1966 short film about a woman who takes a bus tour of her home town (a film containing only vague social comment), and the lyric 1967 short, The Singing Lesson, in which Polish songs accompany a masterfully planned, plotless set of views of Warsaw. The two shorts are hardly ever shown to the public yet they, not the "epic" O Lucky Man!, represent Lindsay Anderson at his best...
Based on Glazunov's melodious score for Raymonda, Cortège is an elegant, plotless exercise in classic Marinsky style that would have delighted an audience of imperial grand dukes. One corps was dressed in shimmering white tights, tunics and tutus; another corps was costumed and booted in a fairy-tale fantasy of Hungarian peasant dress...
Virtually plotless, the film is a series of skits having to do with the efforts of M. Hulot and his fellow employees of the Altra auto company to get a new-model family camper from the firm's Paris plant to an auto show at Amsterdam. They are waylaid on the highways by a seemingly endless variety of motorized misfortunes, ranging from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles...
...Caligari (1964). Like his counterparts in painting, Barthelme was out to turn the boring, the banal and the shiny waste of the world's largest consumer society into art with a small a-the smaller the better. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," he wrote, and his plotless arrangements of culture-junk, blown-up clichés and absurd juxtapositions of daily monotonies showered down like confetti...
...absolute zero. It is a point 459 Fahrenheit degrees below zero at which all molecular activity ceases. Nothing moves. Everyone has sat through films that deserved an AZ rating. It is disappointing that Peter Fonda of Easy Rider fame should have produced one. The Hired Hand is pointless, virtually plotless, all but motionless and a lode...