Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominant visual fixture is the moon: it is the film's metaphor for characters whose mysterious dark sides only gradually reveal themselves. In Bertolucci's brilliant climax, set at an open-air opera rehearsal, his artis tic conceits all converge. As the camera constantly shifts its point of view, we see that Luna 's events form a different drama-or opera-from each player's perspective. Only the moon, hovering above, can know the total picture...
Time After Time has, in addition to its delicate tone, more than adequate suspense. It also makes a worthwhile if not highly original point, stated most clearly by Warner as he flips from one violent image to another on television: "Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I'm an amateur." For Meyer, author of the bestselling The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, it is a promising and interesting directorial debut, requiring a deftness that has eluded more experienced moviemakers. We are in his debt for a bold idea skippingly brought...
...fire, described in wonderfully horrific narrative slow motion, is not the climax but the ignition point of Endless Love. The night of the fire, Jade and her family, the Butterfields, are performing a countercultural experiment and become paralyzed by LSD; David rushes in to save them. But his passionate arson destroys his love affair, drives the Butterfields away to another city and lands David in a downstate mental institution...
...flew back to the capital, and in the late afternoon Nixon invited John Mitchell to join Bebe Rebozo and me for a cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues to see the movie Patton. It was the second time...
...demonstrated on the Ellipse, south of the White House. The President saw himself as the firm rock in this rushing stream, but the turmoil had its effect. Pretending indifference, he was deeply wounded by the hatred of the protesters. In his ambivalence Nixon reached a point of exhaustion that caused his advisers deep concern...