Word: tango
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...worry about at a party." Marilu and Johnny moved in together back in Manhattan, played out their fantasies of London fog and foreign intrigue on the Upper West Side, ate tuna melts and guacamole (never at the same sitting), listened a lot to the sound track from Last Tango in Paris, and even worked together in a show called Over Here! By the last night of the show, Travolta had resolved to try his luck Out There. In Hollywood, his old pal Jerry Wurms drove Johnny to auditions on the back of his motorcycle. Travolta scored his first movie...
Padre, Padrone. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's entrancing film about the loam-to-letters life of a bestselling Sardinian author from humble peasant origins provides the most convincing evidence since Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" of the resilient vitality in Italian cinema, the recent excesses of Fellini, Antonioni, et al. notwithstanding. The Taviani brothers' first film to receive international attention, it features a host of mind-gripping sequences destined to set apart "Padre, Padrone" as one of the most important films to cross the Atlantic in the late 1970s. To name only two: the unforgettable series of shots capturing...
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author: "There's something infamous about the tango. How can I put it? Something brutal and at the same time sentimental. Like Wagner...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI doesn't seem to take things halfway. If his Last Tango in Paris contained some of the most graphic sex that had ever been offered to general audiences in 1972, 1900 is one of the most concerted efforts ever to put the class struggle on the screen. By the end of the four-hour film, Bertolucci has completely exhausted his audience, as much emotionally as physically...
...Although they have little effect on his own creations, he says he is especially concerned about film-makers like Nicholas Ray, who had one big production ("Rebel Without a Cause") and then was forced out of the active movie arena by the powers-that-be, and about Bartellucci ("Last Tango in Paris"), whose latest production he fears will be a grandiose flop. But that's all part of the business...