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...close-knit community like mine, your friends and neighbors can rake you over the coals pretty thoroughly. You aren't insulated from direct criticism as you might be in a media campaign...
...departure from Amarcord, last year's lyrical reminiscence that won Fellini his fourth Academy Award. The new movie is peopled by many of the androgynous grotesques that crowded his fantasy Satyricon (1969). Fellini, 56, has ensured his film a stormy reception in Italy by comparing the 18th century rake-protagonist to the typical modern Italian: "He is all shop front, a public figure striking attitudes ... in short, a braggart Fascist...
...some of the wildest sex scenes ever filmed: Casanova and a challenger engaging in a copulatory contest, sharing two whores each in a bed that crashes and skitters right out of the room; Casanova making love to a mechanical doll whose head spins wildly at the climactic moment; the rake's encounter with a worldly nun who is expert in 39 sexual positions...
...earlier bout, we scoffed when Baron Mikel Scicluna (a bad guy) reached elaborately into his trunks for a small peice of hard plastic (the "foreign object" as the TV announcers call it) with which to rake his opponent's neck. We recognized this as one of professional wrestling's ritual gestures, like the stunned, stylized way the wrestlers react to punches, with the dazed expression and wobbly walk they have all learned. The bad guy pleading for mercy with a fist clenched behind his back, the resounding stomp of the foot on the mat as each punch is delivered--these...
BARRY LYNDON. One of Stanley Kubrick's most audacious excursions, about a rake's progress and comeuppance. The movie is stunningly beautiful and bleakly-sometimes madly-funny. Though the pace is deliberately slow and careful, Barry Lyndon is finally an exciting film because Kubrick's gift for poetic irony charges every scene...