Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUCIEN Ballard is also on the credits of The Wild Bunch and with the exception of a few props and backdrops it is about all that the two films have in common...
...pretty patterns which Ballard was allowed to establish in True Grit are absent in The Wild Bunch since, unlike the Hathaway film, Sam Peckinpah has directed half to three-quarters of this epic in close-shot. The major exception to this rule of composition comes in the slow-motion orgies of violence which punctuate the film at various crucial points...
...style of The Wild Bunch is one which I have found myself opposed to almost as much as the set of values implied in True Grit, but here Peckinpah has forced a reevaluation. For once all those close-ups work...
...magnet, of course, was Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Everything before them--Steve Marcus, who bombed with "Wild Thing"; Jethro Tull, with Ian Anderson strutting, kicking, and striking a Panlike pose with his flute; and the frenetic sound of Ten Years Yater--was prologue. And from the moment they walked on, you said to yourself that everything that came after would be anticlimax. (In fact, Jeff Beck was worse; a real down...
...performed at its world premiere by the venturesome Hamburg State Opera, the three-act music-drama is a lurid vision of hell on earth. Horror builds to a crescendo as sacral scenes of church and cloister are followed by wild orgies of the possessed nuns and a ludicrous exorcising ceremony in which the crazed sisters howl, shriek and twitch like wolverines in heat. Present in nearly every scene is a revulsive chorus of guttersnipes, beggars, epileptics and whores who leap and leer with a demonic joy reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch...