Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adult black actor who plays the young Macunaima is a superb comedian: strutting almost spastically in a yellow sack, he combines the goonish petulance of Jerry Lewis with exaggerated indolence and lasciviousness. Yet he is still such a child that his mother, who sleeps beneath him in the lower of two hammocks, takes an umbrella with...
...Clockwork Orange. Kubrick's biggest b.o. jackpot yet, and a mess. Gone is the Anthony Burgess wit, and the texture of the novel is brutally simplified by the loss of language and incidents. Poorly acted, except by Malcolm McDowell, and directed with leering touches. SACK 57: 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 10. Sunday...
...there for several years. Buechner has eight horses on the payroll, apparently the minimum for a city man who moves to the country with a wife and three young daughters. The girls also have a goat, a tribe of chickens, and a pig which Buechner brought home in a sack last fall, and which has since grown to the girth of an alderman. "Get a pig," he recommends. "Friendly, well-mannered, clean, follows you anywhere." He is working now on a kind of devil's dictionary of religious terms, and doesn't know whether there will be another...
...storyteller that few viewers will even notice till well after the final fadeout. What they will notice is the perversity of the film. In one mind-boggling sequence, Bob tries to pry his diamond pin from the stiff fingers of the corpse that he has stashed inside a potato sack...
...films and edits a picture-on a screen some place behind his hazel eyes-long before the cameras are loaded. "I can make a film on paper," he says. "I never improvise." The grisly scene in Frenzy in which the killer wrestles with a dead body in a potato sack-almost certain to be enshrined by the Cahierists-was dictated by Hitchcock to his secretary one day at lunch, with every stomach-curdling movement laid out in exactly 118 takes...