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...council is possibly the least powerful student government in the entire nation. In America, the student center is the traditional realm of student government. But at Harvard, there is no center for the council to run. No building, no grill, no lecture hall, no cinema, nothing. In addition, the council holds no sway over the governance of the College, and can't even stand up for the most basic of student rights. The administration tramples all over the student body--witness the new alcohol policy--without one word of protest from the council...
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...final outcome of the resulting legal tangle was a bizarre out-of-court settlement by which Frank agreed that Cocksucker Blues would only be shown in one moviehouse on one night each year. This year, because Frank's new film is opening in Boston, that one screening occured at Cinema...
...happened--Keith shot up--so here it is on celluloid. The camera doesn't pay any special attention to Keith's drug use, at least no more attention than anyone on the tour seems to be paying. Frank's chief aim in this film seems to have been true cinema verite, a capturing of life as it unfolds around the camera. There is no indication that he was exploiting the Stones so much as simply watching them...
Oddly enough, by the time the film was over, I sensed an air of disappointment in Cinema 57's capacious movie hall. It was as though the crowd was slowly realizing that Cocksucker Blues could never have lived up to the rumors surrounding it. What were people expecting? What did they want...