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...curling it, and cutting it there was a substantial profit to be made. Gone are the blue jeans, love beads, marijuana pipes, and Jimi Hendrix; In are velvet pants, platform shoes, sports coupes, and Jim Beam. Yet there remains the glibness of the cultural representation, be it theater or cinema, that attempts to sum up in a concise, marketable statement the spirit of the times...
...Oscar Tuesday night. Sanctification always has its price. A couple of months ago it was natural for the media--a Vietnam film repressed by distributors, big cocktail party talk. Now it's been embraced, awarded, distributed, and in the words of the manager of New York's Cinema I, "business is lousy." They might have done better with it if they had kept it underground, low-priced and under high-pressure. If it is not a knockout the media has been touting, it is still a fine film, both very graphic and very suggestive. A lot of it was there...
Hence the cinema of the extreme, with visual effects and emotions so exaggerated that sheer volume is all that counts. Destroy Los Angeles; film a twelve-year-old girl masturbating with a crucifix: wallow in solitary confinement with Steve McQueen on Devil's Island--ten million dollar's worth of a dark screen. a few cockroaches, and no talking. I remember last summer, caught in a miserable little movie called The Terminal Man (from Michael Crichton, with George Segal), finding myself watching the Man (who has an alien machine brain lobotomized into his skull so that his actions are uncontrollable...
...years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused by another sex-crazed next of kin. Some of these scenes are stylized (there's no spoken script in the film), but not for distance's sake. Russell continues to shoot close and uncomfortable: bad-breath cinema verite...
...emptive strike intended to head off an alleged Communist plot to assassinate 500 military officers and 1,000 civilians. He also claimed that he had made plans to leave Portugal even before the ill-fated attack on the Lisbon barracks. Said he: "When a person goes to the cinema and does not like the movie, he gets up and leaves. I did not like the show...