Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came that inevitable twist in logic--you know, the one you always find in advertisements on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. It said that the industry was too young to have put a permanent solution to the radioactive waste problem into practice. But the best scientists are working on it, the ad said, so the problem is as good as solved...
Broumas also read from "Caritus," a series of lesbian love peoms, and recited her "fairy tale poems," old folk stories with a feminist twist...
...Good Doctor itself, a dramatization of several short stories by Anton Chekhov, is no great shakes. These tales are early Chekhov, written under the name Antosha Chekhonte for sale to various humor magazines. They are merely anecdotes, where character is subordinate to the twist ending (which Chekhov was to chop off in his later, masterful works), deriving their charm from the compassionate tone, the airy, economical descriptions, and the flashes of pain in between chuckles. Neil Simon shatters Chekhov's mood, replacing it only with his shrill Broadway yocks, heavy-handedness, and sentimentality; moreover, the inherent Semitism of his phrasing...
...Jour. Arguably Luis Bunuel's most gripping study of eroticism, and certainly one of the old master's all-time achievements. This 1967 release documents the plunge of a stunning Catherine Deneuve into the abyss of masochism, highlighted by brilliantly filmed vignettes of surrealism and as bizarre plot twist, bringing Deneuve's wife of a Parisian physician (Jean Sorel) to the doors of a brothel for a job. Only his classic "Los Olivados" approaches the eeriness of the dream sequences in "Bell de Jour," and relative newcomers to Bunuel's work should mark down this Sunday's showing...
...with jurisdiction over Africa, lives for is security and peace of mind. All Castle really treasures is his routine, his two double whiskies before dinner, his comfortable house in the town outside London where he grew up, and his family. This attachment to the brood has an exotic twist; Castle is married to a black South African, a woman he met while spying there, who has a small boy (fathered by another man). But apart from the obligatory references to apartheid and Castle's off-the-job self-image as "an honorary black," they lead the dull and insistently predictable...