Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Urban Development Secretary George Romney has been conducting a coy, behind-the-scenes campaign to win the Republican senatorial nomination for his personable, pretty wife Lenore, a onetime Hollywood starlet, who worked as Lili Damita's stand-in and had a bit part in a Greta Garbo film. His efforts proved insufficient last week to capture the necessary 75% of the delegates at a party caucus. But Mrs. Romney, 60, who had earlier insisted that she would run only if her party drafted her, declared as a candidate anyway. Though she is the kind of candidate who makes...
Electrodes. "O.K., let's go," says Mrs. Shriver, 44. The first film of the day is a Japanese import, The Daydream, a collage of sensual sounds and sadomasochistic fury. On the screen, a man hangs a girl from the ceiling by ropes, then cuts off her clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks...
Electrodes are placed on the girl's breasts. "This is going to be shocking," cracks Mrs. Shriver. The film grinds to a finale in which the hero stabs the nude girl. "We're turning the whole picture down," says Mrs. Avara. "They insult us by submitting stuff like this." Among the films banned last year was I Am Curious (Yellow), the Swedish import found by federal district courts to possess sufficient "redeeming social value" to qualify for constitutional protection...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI has made another film for us to argue about. Zabriskie Point, a lush extravaganza about the American youth revolution and the violence that envelops it, lacks the neurotically painful symbolism, the lunatic clowns and invisible tennis balls, of Blow-Up. And the moral degeneration that played itself out in the mind of Blow-Up's hero has been brought out in the open and invested in the society at large in Zabriskie Point . But for all its stylistic simplification, Zabriskie- remains as open to speculation and post-movie debate as Blow-Up was. Antonioni collides with his subject...
Antonioni makes it obvious that he is rooting for America's rebelling youth. "I like everything they do," he recently said, "even their mistakes, their doubts." The moment applies neatly to his own film. Zabriskie Point is not a good movie. It is a weak statement with isolated flashes of brilliance. But even Antonioni's mistakes are likeable...