Word: taluncci
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...first of three parts of a projected trilogy, Hugo Taluncci creates one-third of what may be the cinema's quintessential allegory of fascicm. The first installment of his sweeping triumvirate of panoramas, The Boston Telephone Directory uses the alphabet as the ultimate symbol of enforced order. "A," cries Arnold Aaron, a political theorist who works night shifts at a sausage-stuffing factory to maintain contact with the people, "must come before B. When D comes before C, we face revolution!" Neither a book nor a photograph, this movie walks a thin line between cinema and film...
...Taluncci unearths the will of all people to political submission, dissecting the lives of Bostonians whose last names begin with letters from A through G. Plugging in to a network of static-ridden, over-priced, meaningless conversations, the director uses three-minute vignettes to cut through the mirage of Boston life. Wiring together the private agonies of the individuals he explores, Taluncci articulates, almost consciously, the poverty of the mass...
...Taluncci uses ingenious bursts of humor to maintain his pace and to make his point. In cameo appearances, Daniel Ellsberg overhears Richard Nixon telling a dirty joke about Billy Graham and something called "Checkers," after the Committee to Re-Inspect the President installs an amplifier instead of a transmitter in Ellsberg's mother's stuffed derma...
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