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Duet for Cannibals. Dark lady of American letters Susan Sontag made this first film in 1970. At the time of its Cambridge premiere, a Crimson review which Sontag thought nearly definitive described the work as an attack on bourgeois notions of culture and society through the manipulation of film narrative cliches and excepted audience . The Marxist author of that review found the film exciting others didn...
Cornell will be accompanied by his wife, Agneta Ekmanner, an actress who has starred in two of his films and in Susan Sontag's Duet for Cannibals...
...work of the Cinemah that intends to be critically truthful must reflect that fragmentation by making criticism of "bourgeois forms" part of the "data" imparted to an audience. (Every well-meaning cloud-nine intellectual should be required to serve in a factory of a chain gang.) Thus, say Sontag and Poirier, the most important films of the past decade have been the political works of Godard and Rocha, even though these guys are in the baby league as far as politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano, and was made...
...afoot both in the arts and politics since the all inclusive youth frenzy panned out (proving itself to be largely a media invention). People have begun to realize that social change requires patience and effectively planned political action. And, as such faddists as Andrew Sarris in film and Susan Sontag in literature hang themselves by the ropes of their own silliness, the realization seems to have been reached that art--even in its simplest form--is difficult, meant to challenge the preconceptions of its appreciators and awaken higher consciousness, and is socially functional only on a moral level (not necessarily...
...biographer, Jeffrey shares the mania for list making that afflicts everyone from Joyce to Susan Sontag. There are catalogues of Edwin's first utterances ("nnnn" for complaining, "kkkk" for giggling and "chff" - "an early version of Jeffrey?"); the 54 books Edwin owned at age two. There are also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke...