Word: tangoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Ellis Rabb can tango with words and he is a sly devil at milking an audience dry of laughter. Peter Evans' John rolls his lines like dice in a crap game he dare not lose. For Mamet, this play is a five-finger exercise, but so nimble that he often seems to be using ten. - T.E.K...
This $8 million epic, Bertolucci's first effort since Last Tango in Paris, is a fabulous wreck. Abundantly flawed, maddeningly simpleminded, 1900 nonetheless possesses more brute poetic force than any other film since Coppola's similarly operatic Godfather II. If Bertolucci irritates as much as he dazzles, he never bores: his extravagant failure has greater staying power than most other directors' triumphs...
...confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...