Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Tango in Paris 9:40, weekends 5:10; A Streetcar Named Desire 7:35, weekends...
...Last Tango in Paris 9:40; weekends at 5:10; A Streetcar Named Desire 7:35, weekends...
...Last Tango in Paris. A year ago next week I wrote in the Scrutiny column that Last Tango in Paris had already been much abused. The film had been bandied about as sensational, labeled both a sex film and a cult film, I wrote, all with the result that many people tried not even to show an interest in it or, worse yet, saw a lurid sensationalism not actually present...
...last, it's becoming just another movie. Seeing Last Tango on the double bill at Harvard Square, even with such a distinguished film as Streetcar, seems a lot like seeing a sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly...
...destructive to both movies to show them together but on the other hand it's good for Last Tango in Paris to be seen opposite another masterpiece--especially another one starring Brando. The comparison won't be fair, though. A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most firmly entrenched American plays, loved by the public and critics alike. Last Tango in Paris still hasn't found its niche, it's still a cult film or a sex film or whatever depending on your point of view. People still don't know how to react. But maybe in a year...