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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, some of the performances are fun to watch. Dyan Cannon plays a brassy, bitchy manager, joyfully screwing Coburn and half the crew. You never know whether to toss Cannon off as the sexy starlet "dumb broad" type, or look for intelligence behind her unabashed flattery. She manages to maintain this tension in her role throughout the film, and Ross uses her well as a counterpoint to more mundane dialogue. Richard Benjamin is the sliding writer, questioning and confused about the cruise and its purposes; Joan Hackett plays his clinging wife; and Mason plays the washed up director with...
Klute. A thriller about a call girl beseiged by a crazy breather. Starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Fonda has never been tougher, and she is tough. Watch her hands talk when she visits her psychoanalyst--it is eloquence in action. Garden Cinema...
...badly, to protect--so they blocked the real issues from their field of vision. But they could like, hesitantly, over iced lemonade after tennis, Last Tango in Paris. They only like, you see, what lets them feel "with it" without asking them to change too much. They could watch the movie and never feel obliged to relate themselves to the vision that propelled it. The movie's convention (girl shoots lover when love becomes threatening) protected them from that...
...that we knew was being smashed and the rigid lines of sexual demarcation eroded, and they were just coming out of adolescence. They could feel the protest of '69 tug at the roots of the system that wouldn't budge for us in our formative years. And they could watch sexism gruelled on a vast public witness stand. All this means is that this later generation could inherit Feminism as a personal guideline, because it was established for them publicly four years ago. They could internalize the political legacy of '69 as a given...
...powerful intellect (a charge often levelled against Berryman in his poems). Severance is cold and aloof, ever-curious to communicate, a witty though egotistical entertainer. But he is unable to relate to others on a basic human level. Only therapy forces him to confront his emotions. And you watch him turn to rigorous exercises in pedantic self-analysis. The same superiority that sets him off from his fellow patients makes him something of a father figure. When one of his symbolic children threatens to leave treatment, only he can dissuade her from going...