Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...martial epic Patton so stirs Richard Nixon that he has seen the film at least twice. But the star, George C. Scott, may not be entirely the President's favorite actor any more. Scott, who voted for Nixon in 1968, has defected. He has joined the Democratic Party's Committee on Congressional Leadership for the Future, promising the group's head, Sargent Shriver, that he will be available as a spsaker and fund raiser for Democratic candidates in this fall's congressional campaigns. The word of Scott's apostasy went around in Washington, and almost...
...women have made almost daily hit-and-run attacks throughout Calcutta. They have ambushed three police vehicles, killing one policeman and injuring three. One gang stabbed a schoolteacher to death. A plainclothes cop was chased and killed by a knife-wielding mob. Nine movie houses showing an anti-Chinese film were attacked, their audiences routed. Public buses and trams were firebombed. Naxalites ransacked a printing plant handling a U.S. Government account, and sacked the local Ford Foundation office...
...James Fox) who rents the downstairs room as a hideout. The hood corrupts the singer, the singer corrupts the hood, and the two handmaidens (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends to have something more or less profound to say about exchanges of identity and loosening of moral fiber, alternates between incomprehensible chichi and flatulent boredom. Donald Cammell, the writer and codirector, edits his film elliptically and achieves a suffocating sense of baroque paranoia, but seemingly endless cliches overcome...
Jocelyn Herbert's production design creates a feeling of violent, boisterous squalor, and Gerry Fisher's camera work -like Nicolas Roeg's in Performance -is discreet but evocative. Of course, Mick gets to sing in both films. In Performance, he delivers a zesty composition of his own, called Memo from Turner, and in Ned Kelly, he gives us approximately 847 choruses of The Wild Colonial Boy. Jagger's best film role to date is still in Godard's One Plus One, where he can be seen doing what he does best: just singing...
PEOPLE like Godard say no. Not only does the film push a limited and pretty disgusting view of man, but a weighty style forces it on you, oppresses you with it, so that you leave the theatre with sad masses knowing the Truth as dictated by Ingmar Bergman. Godard's own outrageousness, by comparison, keeps you alive and aware to the cinematic image as only "the reality of the reflection" and maintains a constant dialectic that makes his films argument rather than indoctrination. The Passion of Anna will admit no criticism into your experience of it. You must either embrace...