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...middle-aged. The same generation that 15-odd years ago in its flaming youth stole the stage is now dragging culture-consumers of all ages and sensibilities through its mid-life crisis. The children of Marx and Coca-Cola, as Godafd described them in his wonderful 1966 film Masculin-Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both the trend toward...
...beau masculin cherche GWM qui parle francais tu es masculin beau 20-30 sexe musique films sports. Respond to "Crime", box 11. YWMinterested in others into mutual massage--let's rub each other--also interested in dominant (sic) female. Respond to "Crime" box 11. BYP who likes to dance on raisin bread seeks companionship with farm animals. Respond to "Crime...
Godard has always needed to know how people think about the real things and events of their experience. Masculin-Feminin (1965) included a crude attempt to find this out directly: one sequence had Jean-Pierre Leaud go around Paris asking housewives sociological questions. Significant though the confusion of their resources seemed, it only invited the question, What do these women actually mean? or, How are they using language? That's the question Leaud and Berto now realize they must answer before they can know anything else. First they decide...
Chris Parker's experimental winnerCut (U. of Iowa; its choice accentuated the uselessness of the dramatic-documentary-animation-experimental categories) aped Godard's Masculin-Feminine in discussing the making of movies, some very elementary metaphysics, and the old illusion-vs.-reality bit. I didn't like it, but that's between me and my generally perverse taste; at least it was the film Parker wanted to make, plainly personal and chock full of substance. One can't quarrel with a well-executed idea, one can only like or dislike it. Peter Simmons' My House (San Francisco State) is another...
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