Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rifles and shells were packed, the bourbon stashed in car trunks. But the game was off on its own trip. Two black bears were weaving along a road near the town of Florida in western Massachusetts when Conservation Officer William Kulish first spotted them. Next morning, he found the bears asleep near the Deerfield River; when he woke them, they responded with "a pair of silly grins...
Born in Peking in 1949, Boorman had no formal education before coming to Harvard, though he had completed most of the book. He is concentrating in Applied that Chiang Kai-shek's Western-style tactic of concentrating massive forces in Mathematics and plans to do graduate work in philosophy...
...taking these themes seriously, Lonesome Cowboys becomes a real Western. It's designed to be one: its brown-red-yellow tones, its surface-emphasizing grain, its often intensive cutting evoke the mood of the non-epic Western more successfully than any recent film. And like true Westerns, Lonesome Cowboys knows its themes and situations are myths about modern experience...
...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...