Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosi's movie is a semi-documentary investigation of that crash, as dramatically formless as a pile of researcher's note cards shuffled and dealt out at random, leaving the viewer to reach whatever conclusion he pleases about the cause of Mattel's ugly demise. This formlessness dictates a film less suspenseful and, in the end, less satisfying than it might have been. It never quite pierces the surface to reach the dramatic possibilities we know to be buried in the dark depths below...
Throughout his multiple quests, McDowell encounters simplistic over-dramatizations of the evil which besets our society. The viewer encounters many of the standard film cliches which normally beset directors far below Anderson's level. The picaresque style which Anderson adopts has already been so exhausted in both film and literature as to leave little room for originality. And the major fresh idea -- generalizing the actor's experience -- smells so strong that it might as well be stale...
...Seeing With One's Own Eyes, shot in a morgue in Pittsburgh, poses a stunning alternative to Hollywood Pavlovian manipulation of audience emotion. Rather than suddenly swell the the musical theme under tragic characters, Brakhage, throughout a thirty-five minute personal interaction with autopsies, permits each viewer of the film to directly confront his own emotions, examine them, understand them. The Myth of Phos continues Brakhage's list of statements about the elements of the film process: light, darkness, projection, grain density, focus, and shadow movement. The Sexual Meditation series also extends established Brakhage pursuits: the tension of suggestion...
...herself for as long as he is away. But Jutra's conception is not romantic -- no more than Walker Evan's photographs of the depression. The two come together with passion. The depth of this passion appears only much later. At this point, the emotional attachment of the viewer is still vague. We watch as if through a documentarist's camera...
...female body as existing solely for male satisfaction makes much chewier grist for one's moralistic mill than mere nudity or sex. Unfortunately, many self-styled guardians of the public taste seem to flail aimlessly at the naked flesh without real attention to the way it -- and the viewer -- are being exploited...