Word: vitae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond their showings in the 'forties, and sporadic reincarnation on the Late Late Show; for I contend that they "touch immortality" in many ways that ought to be disconcerting to that portion of their audiences that grow increasingly precocious viewing the jucier parts of Virgin Spring or La Dolce Vita. Disconcerting in that they advocate immorality of the sort that even right-thinking undergrads (who allow it in thumbed copies of The Naked Lunch, and sublimate it in Down At The Dinghy) ought to resent: they advocate a soft, yielding, and likewise feminine calculating examination of life. And secondly, that...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). The road to hell in this case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
GARY, At last, LA DALOE VITA has come to Boston. Perhaps the best film to come from post-war Italy, Doice is an angry and moving indictment of the continent's rotting safe society, and it's also a remarkably beautiful experience. This is no movie to be missed. Evenings...
Despite its dramatic failings, La Dolce Vita contains some of the most imaginative and skillful cinematography I have ever seen. The sleazy crowd of photographers that hovers around Marcello's car moves like a swarm of unspeakable vermin...
...pictorial experience, La Dolce Vita is superb; as a drama it is loose and aimless. Transitions from scene to scene succeed magnificently on a visual level, but make little sense in terms of dramatic development. Perhaps there is something appropriate about the mosaic in the Gary lobby which misspells the name of Moliere...