Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offspring of the couple on the train is a young woman (Keller, naturally) of great means and unhappy passions. The man she eventually meets (Andre Dussollier) is a commercial director turned feature film maker who possesses the sort of airy style one inevitably associates with Lelouch himself. And Now My Love mostly has to do with bringing these two prospective paramours together. Lelouch relentlessly follows their separate stories until he sits his lovers down next to each other on a flight from Paris to New York. We have it from the director himself that a grand passion is born right...
...fellow officers to head South Viet Nam's tenth government within 19 months. But he won a reputation as a tough military man who could unite his countrymen in the war against the Communists. In 1967 he was elected President after South Viet Nam's first Western-style political campaign; and four years later, amid charges of harassment of other parties, he was re-elected unopposed...
...nola reportedly plotted over open telephone lines with ultra-rightists to overthrow the government. Moderate officers, who might conceivably have joined the rebellion, were frightened off by the involvement of members of the old regime and feared that a rightist uprising would end up in a Chilean-style massacre of leftists and plunge the country into civil...
Chicago: The Art Institute is celebrating the impressionism Centennial with a retrospective on Claude Monet. Louis Leroy, a rather acerbic art critic of the 1870's, coined the term impressionism from one of Monet's paintings, and Monet's work has always been thought the most representative of the style. The Art Institute has gathered Monet paintings together from all over the country (including several from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts), and the exhibit is supposed to be very fine...
...except display the man who defied all physical laws. But Bogdanovich has succeeded in no corner, and yet acknowledges them all. He has a depressing, overwhelming amount of film knowledge (he is by far the most eclectic filmmaker anywhere) and flaunts it shamelessly, creating uninspired, cranky work which worships style but doesn't understand it. No one has a right to impose this type of self-adulating, strangely misanthropic garbage on movie-goers. Only Madeline Kahn isn't buried. It would take a bigger disaster than even Bogdanovich could create to do that. Peter W. Kaplan...