Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes a pretty ugly movie like The Hill makes it on dramatic tension alone, and sometimes a dramatically vacuous one like Red Desert makes it purely on pictorial grace. Sometimes a movie like Elio Petri's The Tenth Victim, with Ursula Anbuild-up that fools people into seeing redeeming graces gets a publicity dress, Marcello Mastroianni...
...about Ronald Reagan. "I think he's perfectly wonderful," sighed his mother. Reagan spends the next 300 pages of his autobiography heartily concurring. But Reagan's father disagreed: "For such a little Dutchman, he sure makes a lot of noise." After floating through this book's endless stream of vacuous anecdotes and self-indulgent witticisms, I came to the same conclusion...
...beginning of La Lecon, the pupil is admitted to the professor's study. She has ribbons in her hair, a vacuous stare, chewing gum, a copy of Elle, and a youthful, overpowering spontaneity. Her new tutor enters: striped necktie, fuzzy bead, stiff-bearing, and a fixed gaze which could be either intense or myopic. The lesson begins...
...therapy and a volley of platitudes spouted by Eartha Kitt, Richard Conte and Edmond O'Brien, who with marginal success impersonate three real-life directors of Synanon House. Most of the time they appear to be running out-of-town auditions for Actors Studio. The movie's vacuous approach to a heartbreakingly grim subject is underscored by the presence in the film of bona fide former addicts, asked to do nothing whatever that might keep a misguided movie from going...
...since people love to watch gyrations--whether sexual or mechanical--however vacuous the context, Goldfinger will fill up theaters. And if you go, as you undoubtedly will, best lubricate yourself with a spot of wine. Chateauneuf du Pape '55, perhaps...