Word: subconsciouses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bertrand Blier, 39, is best known for Going Places, a fiercely scatological comedy that was widely and unjustly reviled as misogynistic when it appeared in 1974. Handkerchiefs may provoke a similar response from literal-minded viewers. Like Going Places, it focuses on two libidinous buddies (again played by Gé...
Until last week, no one would have seriously equated men with lemmings. But now the lemmings would seem to have the better side of the comparison, for they kill themselves en masse for subconscious, biologically-inspired reasons. Twentieth-century man, lacking any such justification, has finally managed to do away...
Attenborough and Goldman miss a good bet by failing to suggest that Fats is really alive somehow. We never doubt that it is Corky expressing his subconscious desires through the dummy when Fats speaks. Stripped of its suspense in this way, Magic becomes a superficial portrait of a schizophrenic.
After this solid lead-in of shorts, the Allen film is disappointing. Throughout the film producer/-director Allen Mantell consistently fails to probe hard enough, whether out of respect for Allen's privacy or out of deference to a comedian/social observer of Allen's stature. While Mantell does cover some...
While crossing the Yard one night during freshmen orientation week, I heard rhythmic chanting emanating from a group of freshmen across the Yard. Because of the breeze and the distance between us, I could not discern the words and yet something about that melody of monotones and its degenerate animalistic...