Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Antonioni gives is a distinctive and disorienting way of seeing. The Passenger has some of the boldest and most supple imagery that Antonioni has achieved in years - more memorable than anything in Blow -Up or the unfortunate Zabriskie Point. Images are charged with mystery: Locke greets a camel rider all hidden in robes and wearing dark glasses. The man moves by him, staring but not answering. He seems to signal death in his every aspect...
...film Funny Lady is not Caan's idea of athletics. He was therefore relieved to get away for a day at New York's Aqueduct race track to check up with the trainer of his five horses there and get his colors registered. Jimmy, a veteran rodeo rider, has decided that his brand, a rocking JC, will be stamped on silks of emerald and white - a Jewish cowboy, Jimmy loves the Irish. Even if he were not famous, he would catch every stooper's eye. "Dappled out" is racing talk for a fit horse. Lean...
...looming presence's of Nixon and Agnew. George just wants to peel off his jeans and hump, hump, hump, and hump more. Strangely enough, all the women around seem to want to do the same thing. I don't want to hear anything more about Peter Fonda in Easy Rider--George the hairdresser is more interesting and significant if we're talking about byproducts of the sixties. Beauty's performance is very, very good and so is Jack Warden...
...Easy Rider, Friday and Saturday, March...
...dance three bodies combine to depict a knight jousting--one man represents the horse, the second dancer sitting on his shoulders becomes the rider, and the third is suspended vertically as the lance. The bodies move in tandum as the horse rears and the rider thrusts his lance...