Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Walk the Line is Director John Frankenheimer's second film in a row (the other was The Gypsy Moths) about the quiet terrors of small-town family life and a middle-aged man's irrevocable course toward self-destruction. The theme is both difficult and promising, but in each film it is subordinated, not to say submerged, in melodrama...
...Director Carl Reiner offers an ingenious sight gag, and the energy of his cast is never allowed below the manic level, producing some legitimate, if frantic laughter. It was not for nothing that Reiner was the greatest second banana in TV history; it was for next to nothing. His film is but a single joke, and the punch line is the commonplace twelve-letter obscenity...
After Hysteria. The Maysles brothers, a pair of experienced makers of documentary films, had been following the Stones around the country making a film of their tour. At the time of the killing, their cameras were both close enough to get the beginning of the murder on film, and far enough removed from the whole rock and youth scene to put the event into some perspective. The result is a strong, remorseless but sensationalized documentary called Gimme Shelter, in which the Maysles and their skillful co-director Charlotte Zwerin attempt to give both a narrative and journalistic structure...
They begin the film after the initial Altamont hysteria has died down, with the Stones (mostly Jagger) watching the assembled footage on an editing machine. As the film tour progresses, interspersed with scenes of the preparations for the free concert, there are occasional cuts back to the Stones reacting to what they...
...Knife. The footage of the murder at the concert eventually appears. "Can you run that for me again?" Jagger is heard asking offscreen, and the film makers are happy to oblige. They not only run it over, they run it in slow motion and freeze frames, while Dave Maysles points out to Jagger (and thus to the audience) all the gruesome details: "There. You can see the gun against the girl's crocheted dress. And there's the knife. Here he comes with the knife." This technique surely succeeds in pinpointing the feeling of desperate horror at Altamont...