Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Despite the differing views of the two groups, leaders of both called freedom of expression an important goal and did not call for suppression of the other's film. "With the new right in politics, such freedom to show films and express opinions may well be stifled," a women's coalition member said, adding, "it's important that we do what...
Each year during the weekend before exams, the board shows a pornographic film to relieve the tension of study pressures, Mandell said. "We let off steam here," one student attending "Debbie Does Dallas" said, as his female escort added that "most of the women here do not condone the violence of the sex--we are just curious...
Unusual camera angles, obstructed views-particularly of conversing pairs-and the division of the work into three tableaux all serve, among other things, to keep us conscious of our voyeur status. The characters themselves tease our distance from the film. "What's that music?" one will ask referring to the soundtrack after a particularly absorbing drama. Finally the improbable conclusion, and one of the film's few hackneyed moments: an elegant string ensemble in an alley-the soundtrack's players taking a bow? -stirs memories of similar Fellini incongruities, satirized here by the moment's harshness...
...larger crowds of mostly women waited in line to see the pornographic film "Debbie Does Dallas," sponsored by the programming board. The board, responsible for scheduling student activities, had scheduled "Deep Throat" to run, but because of Middlesex County Laws ruling the movie obscene, the student group could not run the movie without the risk of legal prosecution. "We saw what happened at Harvard when they showed the movie," Bill Mandell, the head of the group said yesterday...
Pardon the sermonizing. But Akira Kurosawa's new film is, among other things, a parable about the importance of tradition in holding back the natural tendency toward disorder. Yet the film doesn't play like a parable. Although the boundless agony of the film's finale has a certain invevitability, the characters are not Kurosawa's puppets. Much of Kagemusha is intimate--the scope of the movie does not become apparent until the last half hour. Before that it proceeds matter-of-factly, with a subtle but pervasive irony, the compositions not only beautiful and delicate, but brimming with thematic...