Word: redford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman sinks into her lascivious routine, where she says, "My body feels like it is only my sex organs. And I become the feeling and sound and rhythm of sex everywhere." But sleeping with countless men--from one of her husband's oldest friends to a baby-faced Robert Redford look-alike just out of Yale--rehabilitates her, perhaps by restoring her self-confidence and simultaneously forcing her to hate the self that wins assurance as a sex object. Suddenly she begins to find rules within herself. The increasingly determined woman writes more extensively of personalities, friendships with women...
...second place, when I did figure out what was going on, I thought that the C.I.A. was entirely right. Three Days seems to be saying that the C.I.A. is like a big anonymous corporation in which pawns get knocked off in the senseless palace intrigues of the bigshots. Redford's one major policy statement at the end of the film is designed to make us cheer the idea of the small man fighting the bureaucracy, only instead of the harried housewife trying to get the phone company to correct a billing error, this is blood 'n' guts stuff. It doesn...
...Mechanic became a mechanism, like a gun, which shoots for anyone who points it. And the moviemakers were pointing him indiscriminately, punching out everyone in sight, preferably for no apparent reason. And he was the most popular star in the world, numero uno international, bigger than Eastwood, even making Redford small fry...all this, without acting one single solitary lick...
...abound everywhere at the moment, film being no exception. One of the better of the Oswald-Nixon-Sirhan Sirhan-Hunt-Walt Disney-Did-It genre, Three Days of the Condor, now showing at the Circle Theater in Brookline, makes the trip over the Charles to Cleveland Circle worthwhile. Robert Redford battles the mailman, Faye Dunaway, paranoid and the CIA in a taut and suspenseful film. By the end, it's tough to figure out whom to trust, except the Sundance...
After this requisite romantic interlude, Redford goes on the run again, trying to sort the good guys from the bad. The movie is predictable enough to pass as a game of fill-in-the-blanks; audiences could be invited to contribute their own gimmicks. Condor is so pat, however, that no matter what extravagances of plot were supplied, everything would still come out the same way in the end: empty...