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Eustache really doesn't want to come to any conclusions about culture, sex, morality, cinema or any of the other issues his film deals with. Instead he offers a heightened awareness of how complicated they are without imposing a falsely simple pattern on them; he wants to give us things as they are and not as they can be structured by film-makers. In order to do this, however, he has had to make an unusually structured film, writing out every word of dialogue and thinking out each shot beforehand. Eustache's script repays careful attention even when it seems...
...million U.S. pavilion dominates the site. Its theme: "Earth does not be long to man; man belongs to the earth." Umbrellaed by a translucent vinyl canopy that would cover nearly two football fields but does not touch the ground, the pavilion inside has an al fresco feeling and a cinema with the largest screen in the world (nine stories wide, six stories high). It features a film on U.S. ecology that opens with a soaring, swooping flight into the Grand Canyon and winds up with a rip-roaring raft ride down the Colorado River. Another section, called "The Consumer...
...Australia, concerned with its environment, candidly displays its depredations of wallabies and alligators as well as other species unique to its island-continent. In all the other national exhibits-those of West Germany (featuring a movie of the ruined Rhine), the Philippines, Iran, Canada, Nationalist China (with a spectacular cinema, a display of art objects and performers celebrating such occasions as Confucius' birthday) and South Korea, which has indoor and outdoor spicy-food restaurants-the environmental theme is intelligently and honestly presented...
...movie much more than is given here: songs, laughter, a bit of heartbreak and melancholy, a mellow spirit and some gentle insight. All of it is accomplished, as well, with the openness and warmth characteristic of the work of Jean Renoir, a kind of humble Olympian in world cinema...
Most Blatant Promotion Gimmick: Warner Brothers proudly announced that The Exorcist had brought two people together. Spinster Doris Davey fainted when she first saw the movie at a Chicago cinema eleven weeks ago, falling into the arms of Theater Manager Larry Watts. The couple were married last week. Still under the spell of The Exorcist, the bride wore the same suit she had collapsed in. Director William Friedkin, perhaps hoping to swell the movie's gross of over $19 million so far, made an appearance as best...