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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used for their Rabelaisian potential. Most do not bear quoting, but here is a mild example: EXTENDING THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AND EXPRESSING THE HOPE THAT OUR CARNAL RELATIONSHIP MAY CONTINUE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. By buying nonseasonal cards, the frustrated shopper might even be able to vent the hostility that Christmas pressures frequently evoke. LET ME GET ANGRY JUST ONCE WITHOUT APOLOGIZING FOR IT would seem a suitable sentiment for family and loved ones, I DON'T LIKE YOU would do for any number of minions who expect tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN (FAINT) PRAISE OF CHRISTMAS CARDS | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...perhaps again in October may signify a kind of backlash: a sense, intensified by the amnesties of May, that curriculum may be disintegrating under the impact of Independent Study, Pass-Fail options, and generally softer or inflated grading. These faculty misgivings are not wholly irrational. But to vent them on a proposal that would demand serious examination of a student's idiosyncratic program creates a not uncommon union between pedagogic conservatives, who resent the symbolism of any change, and pedagogic rebels, whose visions of dramatic change differ so greatly among each other that I find it hard to imagine them...

Author: By David Riesman, | Title: SPECIAL CONCENTRATORS | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

ANDREW SARRIS, who should know, calls Godard "the most self-conscious film-maker in the world." In Vent de L'est, a 1969 film which opened at the Festival, Godard passes from self-consciousness to militant solipsism. The movie is, first, about capitalism, colonialism, and exploitation. It is a Western, set at the Alcoa plant just outside of Dodge City. Almost numbingly didactic, the film catalogues the niceties of repression, as Godard's troupe performs a classic ballet; a strike occurs; a delegate to management is chosen; active minorities speak up; an assembly is followed by repression; an active strike...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

...professionally dons new selves dictated by the convictions (whims) of the director. It becomes impossible to make a movie about repression, for any movie is repression. The auto-critique, the attenuated scenes of actors applying make-up, the unmoving shots held for four minutes at a time, transform Vent de L'est from movie into "movie": it details Godard-once again-confronting his form, denouncing its inadequacies, and translating the whole process into story...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

That story, though, is excruciatingly boring. Godard never said he was interested in entertaining; now, it appears, he disdains even deception. When his early movies dealt with film, even tangentially, they did so with provocative wit and a serene, pungent charm. Vent de L'est, however, says at its audience, Your bourgeois concern for my movie is as contemptible as my regard for medium. "Realism," Godard once said, "is never exactly the truth, and the realism of cinema is obligatorily faked." In Vent de L'est, even the lies are faked, and the incessant, didactic narrators are finally...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

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