Word: walkabouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walkabout. A fitting title to a movie whose narrative never seems to go anywhere at all. Central Square Cinema...
CENTRAL II The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie 6, 9:30 Walkabout 7:50, weekend...
HARVARD SQUARE The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie 3:05, 6:25, 9:50 Walkabout...
...ship there or welcoming with royal flourish some visiting head of state). Elizabeth, Prince Philip and their brood have tried hard to give the impression that it is not all a big bore (see PEOPLE, page 42). Elizabeth herself, for instance, periodically goes on what palace aides call a "walkabout," strolling among crowds of her subjects, chatting casually with whomever she bumps into. She has become considerably sophisticated in the years since her coronation when, as one court observer puts it, she appeared to be a "terribly stiff, cardboard figure." On a visit to Stirling University in Scotland...
...savage as anything but an improbably heroic amalgam of Friday, Chingachgook and St. Francis. A pity. The cast are an attractive lot and, as some lyrically nude bathing scenes demonstrate, Miss Agutter possesses one of the lithest, blithest young bodies on public view. Were the eye the only judge, Walkabout might be considered a treat. But no, Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms are neither convincing...