Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Douglas also disqualified himself from the most celebrated obscenity matter now before the court-two cases involving the Swedish film, I Am Curious (Yellow). Though he gave no reason, the film is distributed by Grove Press which recently paid Douglas $200 tor the right to print excerpts from his controversial book, Points of Rebellion, in Evergreen magazine...
...first uses," says Guillet, "in wrappings and containers that get left behind outside, or are thrown overboard." The new plastics can also be used as a covering for some crops. Once ripped by weather, the film would be broken into even smaller particles by microorganisms-and so could be plowed back into the earth as fertilizer...
Period Paintings. Five years ago, when social conscience was not so uppermost, Director Elliot Silverstein had no compunction about lampooning the deadpan red man in Cat Ballou. In A Man Called Horse, he capitalizes on honesty. Little of this American-made film is in English; the cast is largely composed of true Indians who look as authentic as their names: Richard Fools Bull, Ben Eagleman, Edward Little Sky. The movie portrays the Sioux as a repressive, formally violent people who master their mutual hysteria by refracting it into a hundred narrow superstitions. But their cruelty is no more harsh...
riverrun takes its title from the opening of Finnegans Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay . . ." The literary allusion is an unnecessary device; Korty's pace and McLiam's face are enough to supply this wry, wispy film with a valid life...
...villain is Scott Craig, a freelance film maker with a terminal case of what psychologists call affectlessness. Like a jet-set Sade, he rushes around the world anxiously seeking aesthetic forms through which to resolve his conflicts and act out his sexual obsessions. Craig's films include features about his secretary's sensuous mouth, copulating dolphins, even a reel starring a belly dancer's navel that smiles, frowns, bites and becomes a puckered keyhole through which a documentary collage of 20th century horrors may be ogled. Out of context, the man sounds comical. But the harder...