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...until Premier Long Beret flew over from Phnom-Penh and worked out a mutual release. By week's end the anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading to the capital, where crowds of students gathered on street corners-waiting, as one described it, "for a Chinese face to smash." The rebellious mood could turn against the government, which is detested by many students for its languor, inefficiency and corruption...
...picture is less watchable than Martin Scorsese's Alice, though they both take as many risks. Scorsese's Mean Streets was low-budget, high improvisational, and one of the few genuinely exciting movies of 1973. It's at the Kenmore Moviehouse early next week. Mean Streets was a critical smash in New York, but it never made much money, so maybe that's why this new Susskind-Warner production is a little too easy sometimes: when Ellen Burstyn takes off west from the nightmare of a suburb in New Mexico, we see the station wagon eat the highway with high...
...script he works on his friends ("If he's not feeding you," says one of them, "he's telling you what kind of car or clothes to buy"). He is still a passionate reader, especially of 19th century Russian novels: "My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you goddam genius...
...erogenous zone that is allegedly the most susceptible to Emmanuelle's charms. Anyone who falls for this come-on deserves the movie. Emmanuelle could not cause a tingle in the Achilles tendon of a celibate scoutmaster. Why it is turning on the French -it is a box office smash in Paris- is a matter for the most melancholy sociological conjecture...
...play Ishmael to a crazed Ahab of a captain. The ship's quest is not for a white whale but, as Upchurch slowly learns, for the mysterious duplicate of itself, reported sunk on its last voyage. Is he surrounded, then, by ghosts? Or is the captain out to smash determinism by carrying his ship safely past a meeting with its foreshadowed self? As adventures and mysteries multiply, a third possibility begins to appear: a hoax, launched by a vaudeville magician, swelling out of control, may be engulfing both perpetrators and dupes alike...