Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their perplexity is understandable. Ten feet above their cameras, a wiry man perches on a white wooden platform that stands out sharply, in the bright Ohio sun, against the green pasture beneath. His T shirt bears the words INTERNATIONAL CHICKEN FLYING ASSOCIATION, along with a picture of a chicken in full flight, wearing a flying helmet. Perched on the man's own head, helmet fashion, is a large yellow-and-white knitted chicken...
...there is an Old Testament harshness to the Rebekah regime. The windows have alarms. The rooms are bugged, and the girls are kept under constant surveillance. Mail is censored. Errant inmates are given "licks" with wooden paddles; serious offenders, like those who try to run away, are tied up or put in solitary confinement "lockups" for days. "We're not dealing with kids who got caught fooling around in church choir practice, you know," says Roloff...
...TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS Directed and Written by Ermanno Olmi...
...evidence of this movie, the 1978 Grand Prize winner at Cannes, it seems safe to say that Italian Director Ermanno Olmi is no fan of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. Like 1900, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a lengthy (three hours), luxuriously photographed film about Italian peasants, but after that all similarities end. 1900 was a didactic epic that attempted to merge the florid drama of opera with the tenets of Marxism; Clogs is pointedly a tranquil, nonpolemical attempt to describe the peasants' daily existence in the objective manner of documentary cinema. Given their respective goals, Olmi...
...consists of anecdotes about four families who serve the same omniscient landlord. There are, quite intentionally, no theatrics. A couple gradually fall in love and get married. An old man raises a tomato crop. A father illicitly cuts down one of the landlord's trees to make wooden clogs for his son to wear to school. Meanwhile, the seasons change, the sun rises and sets- all in the ripest of MGM colors...