Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizers plan a video presentation on violence in Boston; a tribute to Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; a showing of the film, "Malcolm X"; a panel discussion on blacks and foreign affairs; and a lecture series, sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Committee...
...finally seen The Truth. Or so one would believe after watching the network news and reading almost any paper over the past few weeks of jingoistic self-flagellation. As ABC's "America Held Hostage" approaches its milestone Day 100, the nightly special seems more and more like the film clips Grumman Aircraft makes for the Pentagon...
Schrader paces his film like a march through a rain forest, pausing every few yards to admire the "architecture" of Southern California. Each sequence begins with unnecessary shots of buildings, deck chairs and doorways, and enough driving to explain last summer's gas shortage. The movement of Schrader's camera is confused, boring in with a point of view, then halting to let the scene develop. It races past a row of Westwood parking meters trying vainly to create tension, and hacks its way through a Gere/Hutton sex sequence. In one nice touch, though, the Gigolo voices have a stupid...
...thanks to sponsors like the National Film Board of Canada, dozens of artists doodle away. None produces characters so round or squeaky-cute as Disney's or as bawdy and animalistic as Bakshi's. Instead they often depict very real people in not-so-real situations. The best of these is Why Me?, the story of Nesbitt Spoon, an average CPA-type who learns from his doctor that he has only a short time to live--five minutes (and counting). Understandably, Mr. Spoon panics, and his creators have scripted their story so well that it matches perfectly the stages...
...most curious mix of the real and the absurd, the naturalistic and the impressionistic is a French film based on the diary of a coupe who attempted to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. The story of their failure both to make the journey or to happily coexist is haunting and moving, replete with terrifying violence and strange sexual fantasies, ending finally with their rediscovered love...