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Word: soundtracks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into each other's arms across a seemingly endless expanse of screen comes to mind). Locusts opens with Tod (William Atherton) driving Faye Greener (Karen Black) through the streets of Beverly Hills, past the well-cultivated lawns of auspicious mansions, as "Isn't it Romantic?" plays on the soundtrack...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: The Blighting of a Great American Novel | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...film has almost no verbal humor. A Frenchman shouts insults at the knights, but he's nothing compared to the man in "The Argument Clinic," and the soundtrack compounds the problem by being substandard. Even the music (by ex-Bonzo Dog Band member Neil Innes) is lackluster, without any of the tang or catchiness of "The Lumberjack Song" or "Dennis More...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Gory Bore | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...shows are worth watching but of very uneven quality. A very funny bit about "historical impersonations" featuring Graham Hill impersonating St. John the Baptist--the moustachioed, goggle-girded head of the racing car driver speeding across stage on top of a silver platter with Indy 500 noises on the soundtrack--can be followed by dismal material about a football team explaining "Why We Love the Yangtze...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...wrong, it is not the social background we tend to remember--and Malle may be reproaching us for this forgetfulness in his opening and closing quotes--but images: Lucien riding his bicycle down the hill at breakneck speed while Django Reinhardt plays guitar at breakneck speed on the soundtrack; France playing Beethoven or rising from bathing in a stream, like a figure out of myth; the grandmother opening herself up to nature at last, as she bends down with the eye of benevolent intelligence to watch a cricket on a leaf at sunset; the innate elegance and courage of Albert...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Resistance, Rebellion and Death | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

Chee-Chee may sound like part of a soundtrack of Irven DeVore's latest researches into primate behavior, but is actually someone's transliteration of the title of a play by the great Italian playwright Lujgi Pirandello. Pirandello is best known for his somewhat stagey plays Henry IV, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Right You Are [If You Think You Are], which pretty much made reality vs. appearance the central obsession of modern theater. Chee-Chee is austere (it lasts only a half hour) but full of depth. This is the kind of play--rarely performed pieces...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE STAGE | 10/24/1974 | See Source »

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