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...causes for the disruptions are as absurd as they are unexplained--the hosts making love while their guests wait, a funeral, a French military battalion, imprisonment for drug trafficking, and, on occasion, murder. All these scenes of action an inaction, which are not marked as dream or actuality, are strung together by the metaphor of all six bourgeois marching determinedly along a country road in the middle of nowhere...
...GOES, one incredible parody after another, strung together in little more than a succession of episodes. To talk of this film in terms of progression to a climax is to judge it by standards it disavows. Morrissey deliberately flouts so many tenets of movie-making and taste that it is in fact difficult to establish any point of reference from which to appraise his film...
...branch well, and you hear the sound of the wind." The words of Chinese Painter Chin Nung were quoted by Kawabata in his Nobel Prize speech. Here, despite Translator Seidensticker's efforts, Kawabata's language does not come across as Japanese readers say it should-like strung-together haiku. Yet, even stripped of some of its verbal blossoms, the bare outline of the branch emerges. For readers willing to listen intently, there is the unmistakable rustle of the wind...
Johnson uses the conventional technique of stained acrylic on raw canvas, but his work stands in complete contrast both to the programmed geometries of Stella or Noland and to their opposites, the so-called "lyrical abstractionists." It is, to begin with, about specific images. A high-strung man, Johnson years ago and without drugs experienced what he refers to as a "spiritual crisis," accompanied by visions and hallucinations: vast primal shapes, cloudy or brilliantly lit, floating in deep space. "After that, I didn't paint for years...
...knockabout saint whose sort last surfaced in the works of Kerouac and Kesey. In short, he is good, clean wish fulfillment, and author and hero fall in love with him, in the manner of small boys. Santo does an impromptu star turn at a rodeo, befriends and soothes some strung-out hippies, and finally hands over his golden girl friend to Blake...