Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIGHT think camp parodies are reaching new extremes when Andy Wahl makes a Western with Taylor Mead and Viva. Yet the films of improvisational. irreverent treatment of typical Western dialogues and situations keeps faith with the genre's deepest designs in its sympathy for its isolated characters...
...Lonesome Cowboy's extempore playing and occasional dramatic structure come right out of normal Westerns. Warhol just makes the themes more explicit. Viva plays a lone woman whose encounters with cowboys repeatedly threaten rape; her wish to be raped is more obvious than in the average heroine. The homosexual bonds within Warhol's band of cowboys are overt, but almost every Western implies them. Here Warhol is applying his approach to film-making-vulgarized mad Hollywood. His earlier films are vehicles for Ingrid Superstar or Edie Sedgwick, counterparts of Hollywood's mere stars. His plots are collections of inter-personal...
...characters behave together in Lonesome Cowboys is more simply sympathetic than in Warhol's earlier movies. It perceives them in a sustained erotic way: in two scenes the camera zooms in and out on skin and underlying ground while a cowboy makes love to Viva. Hawks's existential bitterness disappears, leaving Warhol looking sentimental. He is sympathetic to the isolated woman, to the boys wandering around looking for security in others' love, toward the cowboys' leader who, older than the rest, sees the band breaking up and the boys abandoning...
...students in Lowell Lecture Hall gave Chavez two standing ovations, and responded with "Viva" to chants of "Viva la Huegla." They also joined in singing two verses of "We Shall Overcome...
Ever since his appearance as the hysterical junkie in Detective Story (1951), Wiseman has portrayed a memorable gallery of characters: the reporter in Viva Zapata, the crazed Civil War veteran in The Unforgiven, the sardonic, long-suffering father in Bye Bye Braverman and The Night They Raided Minsky's. If he only made more movies, he might prove himself to be one of the best character actors around...