Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another big raid, Air Force F4 Phantoms using both laser-guided and general purpose bombs attacked a fuel depot 35 miles northeast of Hanoi. Pilots reported many direct hits, numerous secondary explosion and fires, and a pipeline...
Israeli planes had also staged a raid on the hill village of Deir al Ashayer, leveling three of its dozen houses. Villagers said that 19 civilians had been killed, including seven children...
...GREAT NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA RAID...
...Kaufman, here making his first major feature, serves up an eccentric, erratic mixture of subdued imagery, flamboyant dialogue and down-home movie corn. The movie remains a series of set pieces never made whole, and the ending invokes a facile and familiar irony. The yarn about "that last great raid" contains echoes of many other films and film makers, most markedly Arthur Penn (The Left Handed Gun, Bonnie and Clyde) and Abraham Polonsky (Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here). Those are two decidedly congenial influences, however, and Kaufman has the ingenuity to spoof and comment on them and other sources...
...economical film maker, Kaufman never dawdles over an image. His editing is deliberately ragged, setting up the equivalent visual rhythm of a high-spirited, rough-edged folk song. Both Robertson and Duvall are a pleasure to watch in their roles. For all its flaws, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid is the kind of first movie so rich in texture and invention that we can look forward to a lot more from Philip Kaufman...