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When at a Republican Party fundraiser in Shampoo Julie Christie crawls under the banquet table to give bed-hopping, two-timing Warren Beatty what's coming to him, the audience will laugh it up. Why not split a safe gut at this hind-sighted view of crazy, misguided youth at the down of the Nixon years. Goldie Hawn squirms in her miniskirts; flipped-out flower children skinny dip at a pot party; and Beatty, as the highly heterosexual hairdresser George, gets by for language with just muttering "You're beautiful, baby, beautiful." That director Hal Ashby glosses over and thus...
...Shampoo, Friday and Saturday at 8 & 10 Science Center...
...flaming 10-in. jeweler's torch in the other, was preparing to go to work, while cooing assurances that "it isn't nearly as bad as it smells." It turns out to be the blowtorch cut, the hottest innovation in California coiffure circles since Warren Beatty in Shampoo...
...number of Reeling's reviews, she loses (or more precisely abandons) this fine cutting edge, perhaps for the first time. Starting with Last Tango in Paris and picking up at the end of the collection with Shampoo, Godfather II and Nashville, Kael does something she's never done before: she lifts her analytical tools from the film itself and begins to sell it to the reader; she seems to ladle on superlatives for the publicists to lap up. About Tango, she writes, miscalculating badly, that "this is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long...
What really sets these reviews apart from the rest is her private discovery, in each film, of a revolutionary jump in theme or technique, the unexpected tapping of a mother-lode. In Tango, she hits upon the bleak, angry use of explicit sex; in Shampoo, the expansion of the conventional romantic triangle into a romantic pentagon; and in Nashville, the seamless fusion of stylization and a documentary feel. She jumps up and down at these new affects, and never settles down to put her surgeon's tools to work. Sparked by a childlike fascination for film history and change...