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...outstanding common denominator of the films the Festival of the Arts people at Winthrop House chose to show was that they were suffocatingly dull. Warhol once made a movie called Sleep (it wasn't shown Saturday, but the program told us it and Blow Job are brothers of his "early period"). Sleep is shot, with a camera that never moves, of one person sleeping. It is eight hours long. When Warhol was once asked how he could stand to film such inaction for so long, he replied he couldn't. He shot twenty minutes and then ran it over...
...call a movie dull implies that it needs much more editing and more action-filled scenes. But that isn't Warhol's medium. He usse the camera as an instrument to record a scene. Blow Job isn't a documentary, a film that represents a real event with a variety of edited shots which give an accurate sense of what went on. Warhol's camera is part of the scene; and his films are what went on before that camera during a limited space of time...
Trois Visages de Liege (1961), ending the first half, was played on Ampex and Sony tape decks, McIntosh amplifiers, and six large speaker enclosures along the walls. The first Visage, "L'air et l'eau," was dull, using everyday electronic sounds to no new effects. It sounded distressingly like the background music to either an aspirin commercial or a spaceranger episode. "Voix de la Ville" and "Forges," on the other hand, were fresh, and full of exciting ideas, unusual sounds creating a wide range of mental images: massive steam engines running wild, fiery boilers bursting at the seams; or perhaps...
...directorial debut, Finney, who also plays the title role, has taken on a stupefyingly familiar theme: the writer who has sold out to Mammon. Wretched in his wealth, Charlie stumbles through life drunk, debauched and dull, until he decides to go home again to revisit his ex-wife and child in the North Country, where he was born. With him is a migratory bird (Liza Minnelli) who has journeyed from America to be his secretary. Their trip rapidly becomes a descent into the hell of present-day materialistic England. Superhighways stretch on into meaningless dark. High-rise buildings hover like...
AVATAR wouldn't be so dull if it were shorter, smaller and edited. The good material vanishes amid oblique and repetitious prose, endless columns of gray type and vast expanses of droning mysticism...