Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject matter of the film became apparent, however, lighted cigarettes thrown from the balcony added to the restlessness in the theatre fostered by the violence on screen. Finally, a group which had been drenched with water from the balcony started the call for "lights." Most just sat and blinked at each other, questioning and anxious, when the lights went on. Some, hot and troubled, were calling for the film to go on, while others already were slipping out into the night. Soon we all scattered, disheartened, when the film was called...
...about the spiritual growth of a young doctor, he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's canvas is the whole range of human experience. His techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
...Order. Acting on orders that had come down from Nixon head-quarters in Manhattan days before, workmen removed the gadgetry Johnson loved so much from the Oval Office. The three-screen TV and the two chattering news tickers were the first...
Despite all this realism, Riot is about as convincing as 20,000 Years in Sing Sing. Jim Brown is becoming a strong, silent screen presence, but that is not acting. Gene Hackman, a fine character actor, deserves better parts than the one he is given here, and audiences deserve better than the careless ease he brings to it. Although the year is still young, Ben Carruthers contributes what will surely stand as one of its worst performances. As a homicidal schizo, he twitches, shakes and gyrates like a dwarf holding a trip hammer...
...released in the U.S., has little of the celebrated Godardian resonance. There are no impalements of the future, as in Alphaville or Weekend, nor is there much of the mordant social satire of La Chinoise or Les Carabineers. Godard himself feels that the film is merely "life filling the screen as a tap fills a bathtub that is simultaneously emptying at the same rate...