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...high camp value of a Booker T. and the MG'sremake of an Eastwood-Western theme is maintainedfor the duration of the unflinchingly retro surfdisc, a collection of surfer instrumentals thatwere released between '60 and '63. Like all thebest that camp has to offer, this disc is morethan just an amusement item: the burning guitarwork and unstoppable rhythms that mark classicssuch as the Cantay's "Pipeline" and the Surfaris'"Wipeout" (check out those killer bongos!) serveas the backbone for this disc. The two tunes bysurf-guitar master Dick Dale are predictablystrong, as Dale deftly powers his way through histrademark, riff...
...Unit Shifter") just as he offers up exactly the sort of pop gem that keeps it alive. Between insanely catchy "Woo woo woo woo ooh oohs" at the beginning of each verse, he sings lyrics like "Songs mean a lot/When songs are bought/And so are you..." In the gorgeous retro-sounding "Range Life" (I'm telling you, it could be off of Highway 61 Revisted), he takes some shots at bands who have made it their business to become huge: "Out on tour with Smashing Pumpkins/Nature kids, they don't have no function/I don't understand just what they mean/But...
...seem to be in the minority. Although the public rejected the TV comeback attempt of 1970s favorite Chevy Chase--who opened his first show's "news" segment with the decidedly retro line "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"--there is an almost insatiable appetite for 1970s-esque stuff. The founders of the "1970s preservation Society" and other entrants to the booming "nostalgia industry" are striking it rich. You may not own a lava lamp yet, but you probably will soon...
...weird angles Nykvist chooses. Indeed, the film's vision of Paris charms the viewer from the neighborhood cafe where Trokovsky has his morning hot chocolate to the seedy bars and cinemas he visits with Stella. Details, like the outrageous flares, pendants and sheepskin jackets she wears, are convincingly retro. The only contextual problem is the accents. Ironically, the only French-sounding actor in the mainly American and British cast, Polanski, plays the only non-French character (Trokovsky is Polish).One is tempted to wonder why, in this case, the film is set in Paris at all. But (silly...
...fall of 1963. Passionate rebel Kevin Costner is willing to break the rules to make a moral point. Flinty lawman Clint Eastwood is riding in a vehicle needed for President Kennedy's visit to Dallas. At first this looks like the convergence of two recent strains of Hollywood retro-history: JFK in the Line of Fire. But A Perfect World, which Eastwood directed from John Lee Hancock's script, is not another dark fable about Camelot. The stage is smaller here, the concerns personal rather than political. This is an old- fashioned, nicely spun-out, two-handed character drama...