Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balaguer!" The Caribbean republic was almost paralyzed. Steel shutters banged shut on shops; trees were felled across streets to block public transport. Mobs roamed the hot, narrow sidewalks and streets of Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), taunting cops and soldiers-who responded with tear gas and noise grenades-with the cry: "Boo Boo Balaguer...
Hollow-eyed children wait in vain for food; men and monsters try to devour each other; a little girl's tear confronts a scene of carnage; men mutilate each other in the name of "an eye for an eye"; a melancholy hovers over even Lasansky's portrayals of his own family. Sprinkled among the prints is a series of strange self-portraits. They all share the same fierce intensity, but none looks like any other...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca (The Love Game) has produced a minor comic mattresspiece in which hero (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and heroine (Jean Seberg) tear up the sheets with hilarious abandon; but then at the last minute, the director figuratively draws the sheets over the lovers' faces-the contemporary bedroom, he seems to be saying, is a morgue...
Vigo gives substance to the students' dream of taking over school, by distorting every scene in just the way that a young, mistreated boy might have imagined it. He uses every camera trick he can to tear us loose from reality. At the same time, he includes so many convincing incidents that it is impossible not to believe in the reality of the dream. He destroys verisimilitude but makes fantasy so credible that I quickly stopped smiling at a puerile conspiracy and began to shudder at the vividness of a revolt prompted by deep injustices and carried out with alarming...
...young tomcat (Grant Williams). In cinema sin, as everybody knows, it's the moviegoer who pays-in this case for 116 minutes. But to the masochistic (and largely female) millions who use movie houses as self-torture chambers, Susan Slade will come as a genuine treat for the tear ducts. It is the lachrymasterpiece of the cinema year, a truly elephantine sniffle...