Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WAGGING IN Brooklyn garbage and a bopping Elton John soundtrack open Sidney Lumet's overexcited mongrel of a film about a bank robbery. A high-spirited, sporadically funny film about a trivial event, Dog Day Afternoon is at odds with itself. Its mixed parentage--one part action shoot-out, one part ethnic sit-com, and two parts documentary--makes it an entertaining enough mutt, but hard to control. It wanders in several directions at once and over-whelms its charming moments in tedious incoherence...
Wertmuller's fundamental lack of sympathy with feminist ideas parallels her conception of the relation between politics and love. In each of her films, Wertmuller shows men whose political ideas are contradicted by their emotional and sexual behavior: in Love and Anarchy Giancarlo Giannini fails to shoot Mussolini because he falls in love; in the Seduction of Mimi his machismo belies his communism and ultimately forces him to collaborate with the Mafia; in Swept Away he forsakes his peasant wife and children for the socialite Raffaella. Though Wertmuller sees herself as a political filmmaker, the emotional message of her films...
...women. "I think women should learn how to use guns, and I think they should carry them in the streets. And if they are harassed, they should pull them out, and if that doesn't work and a man continues to harass them, then they should shoot...
...including sets of handcuffs, suggesting that the suspects were involved in three recent bank robberies in Brooklyn and Manhattan-which may explain why the gunman panicked and shot the officers. The police now watch Segarra's known haunts. A detective spots him in a public market but cannot shoot; the area is too crowded. The man escapes...
...magazines in this age of television, all that attention was unintentionally flattering. Millions more people learned of Sara Jane Moore's attempt to shoot the President from network evening news programs, let alone countless radio reports and front-page newspaper stories, than will read about it this week in TIME and Newsweek. Yet what loomed largest in many minds was the face on the cover. Says NBC News President Richard C. Wald: "The cover hangs around on newsstands all over the country for a week, and that permanence is bound to have an influence all by itself...