Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORAL of this film is "Tut, tut, middle class." Yes, here we have marvelous adulterers right before our very eyes. Middle class boozers who cheat on their wives. Fat old men who tell dirty jokes, bad dirty jokes. Cassavetes is working with a theme that has been sucked dry by better men than he. But Cassavetes is desperate. This is about Faces after all, so he keeps flashing close-ups of faces on the screen, quickly, back and forth. Sure, it is shocking. The same as seeing an oversize knee jerking out at you. Cassavetes has discovered something about film...
GRAZIE ZIA is a flashy first film by young (25) Italian Film Maker Salvatore Samperi. His theme is moral and spiritual decadence and his style is already accomplished, but the film is too repetitious and vague to be entirely satisfying...
...conceived alliance between the University and the war in Vietnam. Thus even when the students in Mallinckrodt began to compose a list of demands one night in October, someone suggested that they include the abolition of ROTC at Harvard. But although the suggestion seemed in keeping with the theme of the sit-in, it was quickly voted down: there was a general feeling that ROTC wasn't going to be disposed of so easily, and anyway, no one knew much about...
JOYCE GARY, by Malcolm Foster. The discontent of the artist in organized society emerges as the major theme in this first full-scale biography of the late author of such novels as The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised...
...whatever garments they care to (most stop at shoes and socks). The weekly sessions take place in a barren room with a minimum of props; the usual musical accompaniment is the pounding of drums. After a few basic instructions from Halprin on the nature, of the evening's theme, the enactment of the myth begins. And except for some quiet and inconspicuous guidance from her workshop dancers, the non-professional participants are left almost entirely to their own creative devices...