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...years rumor has had it that all Universal Pictures films are made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...
Everybody's Pal. Lionel's vita has not always been so dolce. After years of bumming in Greenwich Village, he became, as he recalls it, "a half-assed journalist for Hearst. But they fired me because I spent too much time at Lindy's and Stillman's Gym." He made his stage debut in an off-Broadway production of E.E. Cummings' Him. Lionel appeared on radio with Fred Allen and Fanny Brice. Then he drifted into movies, where he scored as a poet-of all things-in The Scoundrel (1934). His face (complete with unmatching...
Cinema's greatest living satirist (La Dolce Vita, 8½, Juliet of the Spirits), Director Federico Fellini has always been half in love with his main target: decadence. His favorite gallery is Rome, where the extravagances of the Via Veneto add daily calories to the Sweet Life. The Appian Way leads into the past, into the harsh, lurid revels of Petronius, who mocked Nero's ancient Sybarites with the first Satyricon. Although only fragments of that manuscript survive, they are enough to reveal a Homeric spoof. The hilariously ignoble hero, Encolpius (sometimes translated as "the Crotch...
...friends, with the proviso that they dissect her corpse and eat it. As always, the maestro's greatest strength is anecdotal. His account of a patrician husband and wife who commit suicide rather than submit to imprisonment is as affecting as the short tales of La Dolce Vita. His story of the adventures of a woman and the corpse of her husband is neoclassic black comedy...
...businessman, Rod Taylor. Again, her basic reflexes are sound. Antonioni suggesting that she is capable of reaching a decision to resist forces' Antonioni condemns. In a brief meeting with some beautiful deranged children, corrupt as the angelic demons that end Fellini's Toby Dammit and La Dolce Vita, Daria is threatened by infantile gang rape and escapes fast, horrified at 'these mutants removed from society by a friend of hers. They inhabit America's barren unclear-testing-ground country, children of a social and cultural Hiroshima, like those of Losey's film These Are The Damned. The sequence ends with...